Finding π using random numbers and probability. This short demonstrates a Monte Carlo approach, showing how randomness and statistics can converge to an accurate estimate of pi through repeated trials ...

Why? Good question.

The Mega Millions jackpot now stands at $138 million for the lottery on Tuesday, Dec. 30, the last drawing of 2025. If one lucky person hits the jackpot, they'll have two options: take home a one-time ...

Powerball's top prize is now at $20 million after someone in North Carolina scored the $209 million jackpot on Jan. 21. One person is a whole lot richer after finally claiming the $1.8 billion ...

PROF. DANTZIG'S title raised my hopes. As a biometrician concerned in an attempt to substitute mathematical expressions for such useful, if slightly vague, biological expressions as race, type, ...

A $1.817 billion Powerball prize won on Christmas Eve in Arkansas now ranks as the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever. By The New York Times Huge jackpots have become increasingly common in the ...