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Mathematicians Explain Sports: Cricket

June 28, 2017Original blog post

Cricket, explained: each transposition is a point and the time variable is unbounded above, an ill-defined problem.

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"So each transposition is a point… and the time variable is unbounded above?" "Yeah, it's kind of an ill-defined problem."

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Applied Math › Math in Sports
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