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Science News March 15, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Solving Yahtzee Phil Woodward of Pfizer Global Research and Development in England has solved the game of Yahtzee, computing all of the more than 1 trillion possible outcomes and working out optimal playing strategies. His results appear in the current issue of Chance. |
Science News April 13, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
Tricky Dice Revisited The game involves a set of four cubic dice, each one numbered differently. You let your opponent pick any one of the four dice. You choose one of the remaining three. Each player tosses his or her die, and in a game involving 10 or more turns, you will nearly always have more wins... |
Science News July 12, 2003 Ivars Peterson |
Improving the Odds in RISK RISK is a classic board game of global conquest. First published in 1959, this war game remains popular and continues to attract mathematical attention. Recent analyses reveal that the chances of winning a battle are considerably more favorable for the attacker. |
Science News October 8, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Binary Dice Wei-Hwa Huang has simplified dice and created a new set of mind teasers and games. |
The Motley Fool February 14, 2007 Mary Dalrymple |
Know Your Score Find out what lenders really think of you. Your credit score is the result of a statistical computation meant to tell lenders whether it's likely that you'll default on a loan. |
Bank Technology News October 2007 John Adams |
Mortgage: Running Up The Credit Score With mortgages to low-credit score borrowers becoming scarce, one move is for consumers looking for loans to increase their credit scores. That's where Carteret Mortgage hopes its use of a program called Deal Maker Score comes in. |
Search Engine Watch September 16, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
Diagnosing the Impact of Optimization on Your Quality Score These two Google tools can help you understand and track your quality score, as well as the effect of your paid search campaign optimizations. |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2005 Dayana Yochim |
Why's My FICO Score Wacky? Wonder why your credit scores are so wildly different? It's because the scoring systems are wildly different. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2006 Dayana Yochim |
Fake Credit Scores for Sale You might be surprised how label-conscious your lender really is. No matter what the scoring scale, all of these systems are designed to achieve one goal -- to see how risky it is to do business with you based on your past behavior. |
Search Engine Watch October 15, 2010 John Lee |
It's True: Optimizing PPC Campaigns for Quality Score is Still Important Some simple tips for optimizing your campaigns to improve quality score. |
AskMen.com Terence Channon |
4 Steps: Raise Your Credit Score When you raise your credit score, you raise the number of advantages available to you in the real world. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Will Credit Score Changes Hurt You? If you thought you understood how your credit score works, think again. The rules are changing. |
Inc. October 2008 |
Cleaning Up Your Credit Here are four tips for lowering your interest rate and improving your credit score. |
AskMen.com Michael Estrin |
13 Things You Don't Know About Your Credit Report Your credit score is a very important number. Here are some things you didn't know about that mysterious number that will help you improve your rating. |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2005 Dayana Yochim |
Your Credit Score's All Wrong The author reveals the kinks in the consumer credit scoring system and explains why the credit file you're allowed to see isn't the same one your banker uses. |
AskMen.com December 21, 2003 Gary Bennett |
How To Improve Your Credit Rating When your credit risk comes down to one cold hard figure, it's hard to deny. With this in mind, several steps should be taken in order to better your credit risk. |
Search Engine Watch January 5, 2009 Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 1 Increasing your quality score for paid search campaigns will help you save money on your bid and increase your rank position. |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2004 Dayana Yochim |
America Scores! March Madness extends to credit scoring. How does your state rank? |