Recent Posts Tagged With 'algorithms'

• Variable Change

  Posted on Wednesday February 11th, 2009 at 10:07 in algorithms

  The movie 21 was on cable this morning, and I caught the ‘variable change’ scene. In the scene, the professor poses a scenario to the class, calling it “The Game Show Host Problem,” which goes as follows: Suppose you’re ...

• The Race Game

  Posted on Sunday March 9th, 2008 at 10:42 in puzzles, algorithms

  The game show The Price is Right has a game called The Race Game. You’re shown four prizes and four prices and you need to match the prices to the correct prizes. After you place each price tag next to a prize, you run back and pull a lever on ...