Recent content by Tregowan

Thanks to everyone for their responses - especially the "Coupon Collector's Problem" which really does get to grips with the algebra involved. I'm going to look out that book and start reading! I've taken a slightly different route in the six months since I last posted here, and modeled the...

HOW MANY PACKETS DO I HAVE TO BUY? Hi all, I'm posing this question because I'm interested in the answer from a purely theoretical point of view - I'm not going to go out and test the answer afterwards, and it's not for my homework (I last did homework more than 10 years ago)...

Hi there, For a full explanation of how to calculate the height of a geostationary satellite, check out a blog post I wrote on this very subject: http://davechessgames.blogspot.com/2011/01/maths-problems-5-geostationary.html This uses the formulae and the constants you've been given -...