A human can estimate how much a particular pig weighs by simply looking at the pig. The accuracy of that prediction is said to improve if the human uses augmented reality glasses of the type described in this study: “Pig Weight Prediction System Using RGB‑D Sensor and AR Glasses: Analysis Method with Free Camera Capture […]
Ingenuity came to play in these two studies that, each of them, tried unusual ways to estimate the value of particular mathematical constants. (Note that, if you consider only these two studies, you might leapingly assume that this kind of thing is attempted once every decade.) Using a Shotgun “A Ballistic Monte Carlo Approximation of […]
A quick math adventure: Estimate the number of co-authors in this publication (“Erratum to ‘Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory‘”, Astroparticle Physics, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 89–99. Thanks to investigator Adrian Smith for bringing it to our attention.) If you want to do […]