Sorry, I don't know. But I'm cc'ing the sage-support list, whichmight have more people who know more about Sage's functionality for doing probability and statistic computations.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:09 PM, michel paul <mpaul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Next week we start probability, and I'm working on a Sage worksheet for my > students. So far I'm just working on ways to use Sage to represent the > typical textbook probability examples - dice, cards, etc. Since a lot of > my students are Jewish, I thought the dreidel example might be good. > > I have a few questions: > > 1. In creating a frequency bar chart for the sums of two dice I found that > I had to pad my frequency array with [0, 0] to get the bars to match the > right category. Is there a better way to do this? > > 2. In representing a deck of cards I'm using symbolic variables for the > suits, aces, and face cards. Unicode is supported in Python 3, so there > it's possible to access the actual symbols for the suits. It's kind of fun > to be able to do that. Is that possible currently in Sage? > > 3. Does anyone have any other ideas for good ways to illustrate probability > using Sage? This would be for an audience of high school students who are > very weak in their math but have passed Alg 2 and are motivated for > college. > > Thanks, > > Michel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-edu" group. > To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en. > -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
