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Anyone who has taken a Computer Science course will know about the “Divide by Zero” error message. In mathematics, you cannot divide by zero because it’s an operation that you can’t find an answer to. I always wondered why exactly you couldn’t do it. It took me a while to understand it but later on [...]

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Don’t know ask me how this discussion got started but it did. The topic at hand was the probability of choosing the right door that contained the prize. You’ve heard of that game show where the host gives the contestant a choice of three doors. They select a door and then the host shows them [...]

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