Title:

On changing money and the birthday paradox

Group publication title:

Didactics of Mathematics

Title in english:

O rozmienianiu pieniędzy i paradoksie urodzin

Creator:

Wilkowski, Andrzej

Subject and Keywords:

birthday paradox ; generating function ; partition

Description:

Didactics of Mathematics, 2010, Nr 7 (11), s. 127-134

Abstrakt:

The paper deals with two problems of discrete probability theory that can be included to a curriculum in mathematics or statistics at universities of economics. The first one addresses the question that is interesting for economists: in how many ways one can change a certain amount of money given a fixed set of denominations. One can answer the question using either theoretical or software tools (such as Matlab or Mathematica). The other problem deals with the birthday paradox and its generalization. It is an example when intuition fails

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

Place of publication:

Wrocław

Date:

2010

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

Language:

eng

Relation:

Didactics of Mathematics

Rights:

Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone (Copyright)

Access Rights:

Dla wszystkich w zakresie dozwolonego użytku

Location:

Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny we Wrocławiu