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https://garycornell.com/2020/04/21/multiplication-of-probabilities-or-what-to-do-when-you-have-to-go-shopping/ - with an occasional random thought on random topics. All material is owned and copyrighted © by Gary Cornell but may be freely quoted Sat, 01 Aug 2020 21:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://garycornell.com/2020/04/21/multiplication-of-probabilities-or-what-to-do-when-you-have-to-go-shopping/#comment-480 Sat, 01 Aug 2020 21:33:46 +0000 http://garycornell.com/?p=77#comment-480 […] Yes I know this isn’t math – but it just confirms that people need to do everything possible to not get this horrible, horrible disease, i.e. (re)read my post https://garycornell.com/2020/04/21/multiplication-of-probabilities-or-what-to-do-when-you-have-to-go…. […]

]]> https://garycornell.com/2020/04/21/multiplication-of-probabilities-or-what-to-do-when-you-have-to-go-shopping/#comment-223 Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:50:02 +0000 http://garycornell.com/?p=77#comment-223 Another strategy is to buy twice as much so you shop half as often, changing the probability to its square. Or buy three times as much …

]]> https://garycornell.com/2020/04/21/multiplication-of-probabilities-or-what-to-do-when-you-have-to-go-shopping/#comment-215 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:40:25 +0000 http://garycornell.com/?p=77#comment-215 Hi Gary, Well done! While the idea of your post is in every elementary text on probability theory, the chance that a typical shopper would read such a thing is 1/N. By showing that this idea is of use to shoppers in the age of corona-virus you spread the word much more widely and undoubtedly improve the odds of surviving for many people. Well done!

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