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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Six 11 seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, UCLA in 2021, and NC State last year. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 quintillion. trillion.

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Bracketology (2024 Edition)

The Better Letter

Five 11-seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, and UCLA in 2021. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 quintillion. trillion.

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Pain is Part of the Process

The Better Letter

3 Another study , covering the period 1983-2006 utilizing the Russell 3000 Index, achieved similar and consistent results. This is the best thing I read this week (it combines magic, music, mystery, and math); this is the best thing I saw. That means the remaining 96 percent of stocks merely matched the return of one-month U.S.

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Math Problems

The Better Letter

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

And so I think, you know, not to say you couldn’t do it when there’s zero, but I just think it’s a lot harder to make the math work. 00:47:56 [Speaker Changed] Te Tina made it very difficult to be on the short side when there was no alternative to equities, was pretty much the only place, only place you could go.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. The F, there is a subsequent change in 2006 called the Pension Protection Act.

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