Diophantine Solution
A equation relating Halley's Comet, the 17-year cicadas, and the calendar year is a Diophantine equation, an equation which only permits integer solutions.
Category: Non-Fiction
Bitcoin, should it be in your portfolio?
Updated Dec 19, 2022. Bitcoin trades at $16,700., down from $60,000 in early 2021.
Covid World Counts
Brazil is in the direst situation. Its density of new cases is twice that of the USA.
Company Pension Rule of Thumb
A good rule of thumb for a snapshot analysis: Years of coverage equals asset balance divided by net outlay.
Crime and Order
With the improved skilled workforce, the United States economy will flourish under the stimulus of fixing and managing the ecology of our piece of the…
Postal Service and Covid
Rural postal areas with small staff. It’s there that, by ill luck, when a worker catches covid there is less staff to pick up the…
Good For One
A single action may seem good for us, but if everyone does the same, the result is bad.
Covid by Age Group
Children under 5 account for about 1% of all covid hospitalizations. Not zero. It does happen, but it's a low rate.
Covid-19 Cases and Hospital Admissions
The major decline resulted from the mainly successful effort to ensure that covid-19 did not run rampant through long-term care facilities.