2010 Math Numbers 
The Big Picture
JUNE 9, 2024
Barry has written extensively about denominator blindness, i.e. throwing out a number without any context whatsoever. Well, the number is actually very close to the latter (1.470 million): So, 10k on 1.470 million is less than 1 percent — 0.68% to be exact. certain that the Journal got the number from BLS. But whatever.
The Better Letter
MARCH 18, 2025
Nigl’s bracket finally went bust on game 50 (the third game on the second weekend) when three seed Purdue defeated number two Tennessee, 99-94, in overtime. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ).
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The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.
The Better Letter
MARCH 14, 2024
And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ). During the 2010 World Cup, Paul the Octopus picked the correct winner of eight-straight matches, including the final (his odds of doing so were one in 256 ).
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. One, we also saw a record number of credit card openings in Q1 and Q2.
The Big Picture
DECEMBER 6, 2022
And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number.
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
Kurtosis is a very fancy word where the higher the number, the greater the risk of an outlier result like 2022. A lower number is a mathematical representation of smoothing out the ride via fewer/smaller outlier results. The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged.
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