Nobody plays hard defense during the allstar game. They don’t want to take a chance on getting hurt in a game that means nothing. What the fans want is to see their favorite players make three pointers and dunks.
I follow my favorite team, but I never bother to watch the allstar game. B O R I N G!
But they’re not all three-point shots, in fact less than 40% are. Besides, basketball is pretty boring – it’s just back and forth with no one getting ahead unless someone makes a mistake. Pretty strange that the game has to rely on mistakes.
What’s boring to me is the continuous streams of inane commentary and the flickering camera shots. Seems they just can’t keep quiet or still. Same for lots of tv programming. Cameras seem to jitter and jink so much it is hard to concentrate. Although that might be to distract from the poor script, acting, and badly set up action in most shows.
Obviously he did not estimate the 400 in the calculation. The calculation was based on the 397 points. If he had estimated the 400 points, a 4-digit answer would just be wrong. The precision of your answers cannot be greater than the precision of the numbers you start with…so if he estimated the total points at about 400, that would be one basket in about 20 sec. I had problems with students who would put 3 1-digit numbers in their calculators and get an answer to 3 decimals.
Precision and accuracy are two different aspects of any mathematical observation. “The first manned Moon landing was in 1969” is accurate but not particularly precise. (It didn’t mention July 20). “The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is 4.141592653589793” is pretty precise but inaccurate. (It’s actually 3.14159….)
RobertWright1 4 months ago
Agreed, b ball is ridiculous.
Uncle Kenny 4 months ago
Nobody plays hard defense during the allstar game. They don’t want to take a chance on getting hurt in a game that means nothing. What the fans want is to see their favorite players make three pointers and dunks.
I follow my favorite team, but I never bother to watch the allstar game. B O R I N G!
c001 4 months ago
Reminds me of my lab courses: “The 2nd digit after the comma is random, but the 3rd and 4th are correct again.”
Cactus-Pete 4 months ago
But they’re not all three-point shots, in fact less than 40% are. Besides, basketball is pretty boring – it’s just back and forth with no one getting ahead unless someone makes a mistake. Pretty strange that the game has to rely on mistakes.
ewaldoh 4 months ago
If you’ve noticed, THERE IS NO “D” IN ALL-STAR.
Ceeg22 Premium Member 4 months ago
Which is why pro basketball is so boring
sandpiper 4 months ago
What’s boring to me is the continuous streams of inane commentary and the flickering camera shots. Seems they just can’t keep quiet or still. Same for lots of tv programming. Cameras seem to jitter and jink so much it is hard to concentrate. Although that might be to distract from the poor script, acting, and badly set up action in most shows.
Barnabus Blackoak 4 months ago
What is Frazzs T-Shirt today ?
dpatrickryan Premium Member 4 months ago
Especially since the calculation was done on the basis of 397 points, not 400. (You get 21.6 seconds per three-pointer if you assume 400 points.)
sid w 4 months ago
Obviously he did not estimate the 400 in the calculation. The calculation was based on the 397 points. If he had estimated the 400 points, a 4-digit answer would just be wrong. The precision of your answers cannot be greater than the precision of the numbers you start with…so if he estimated the total points at about 400, that would be one basket in about 20 sec. I had problems with students who would put 3 1-digit numbers in their calculators and get an answer to 3 decimals.
Mike Baldwin creator 4 months ago
Who knew Sports could involve so much math?
Richard S Russell Premium Member 4 months ago
Precision and accuracy are two different aspects of any mathematical observation. “The first manned Moon landing was in 1969” is accurate but not particularly precise. (It didn’t mention July 20). “The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is 4.141592653589793” is pretty precise but inaccurate. (It’s actually 3.14159….)