Timeline for There is mathematics behind the 1989 Tour de France !
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| Jan 6, 2011 at 17:09 | comment | added | Maxime Bourrigan | If a sports journalist find this post, this last comment will be rendered as "Several simulations, run by the eminent mathematician Prof. BR, prove that L. Fignon should have won the Tour de France in 1989 over G. LeMond." | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 16:40 | comment | added | B R | 2 out of 100000000 simulations of the difference between the sum of 11 samples from two U(0,1) distributions were greater than 8. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 13:44 | answer | added | Tony Huynh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 13:25 | history | edited | Chandan Singh Dalawat | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:57 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | There may be some calls for closure, since this is a standard homework-type problem in elementary statistics courses. @Tony: so that they are uniformly distributed in [0,1) ... It doesn't matter for the question. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:49 | comment | added | Maxime Bourrigan | I think they take the floor. Essentially, they start the clock at the beginning of the race and your final time is what the clock shows when you (or the first man of your group) cross the line. It would be harder to do it in another way. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:45 | answer | added | Alex B. | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:44 | comment | added | Tony Huynh | @Denis: Of course. I was just asking out of real-world curiousity. Thanks. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:36 | comment | added | Denis Serre | @Tony. No, I'm not. But whatever they took (floor, roundoff, top), the mathematical problem is the same. | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:34 | comment | added | Tony Huynh | Just to clarify, are you sure that they don't take the floor instead of the roundoff? | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:33 | history | edited | Tony Huynh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jan 6, 2011 at 12:26 | history | asked | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 2.5 |