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We humans are a smart bunch, but we really suck when it comes to understanding and handling excessively large numbers. Here’s why we’re so bad at it — and what you can do to make sense of concepts and ...

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Sharon Hewitt Rawlette has written an excellent compendium of coincidence stories with explanations and uses, The Source and Significance of Coincidences. In this guest editorial, she takes apart the ...

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The law of large numbers describes how the results of an experiment will get closer to the expected value if a person repeats it a significant number of times and calculates an average. It bears some ...