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On the Japanese Multiplication Method. A father-and-daughter dialogue
G. D'Agostini
Recently the media broadcast the news, together with illustrative videos, of a so-called Japanese method to perform multiplication by hand without using the multiplication tables.…
On the Peirce's "balancing reasons rule" failure in his "large bag of beans" example
G. D'Agostini
Take a large bag of black and white beans, with all possible proportions considered initially equally likely, and imagine to make random extractions with reintroduction. Twenty con…
On the so-called Boy or Girl Paradox
G. D'Agostini
A quite old problem has been recently revitalized by Leonard Mlodinow's book The Drunkard's Walk, where it is presented in a way that has definitely confused several people, that w…
Why does the meter beat the second?
P. Agnoli, G. D'Agostini
The French Academy units of time and length - the second and the meter - are traditionally considered independent from each other. However, it is a matter of fact that a meter simp…