Does anybody know how Matlab became so big in science? What's the story? It's expensive, inflexible & not pedagogical. How did this happen?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox … in Mathematica: Table[Total[Map[(2^(# + 1)) - cost &, RandomInteger[GeometricDistribution[1/2], n]]], {n}]
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that's bloody terse — nice!
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Always wanted to put an entire stochastic simulator in a tweet :-)
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I think you might appreciate this [if you haven't seen it already] http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/110582/im-a-palindrome-are-you …
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Pfffft. The real geek-stuff. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing) …
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