About a year ago I wrote a post examining the data when Rooney become England’s highest ever goal scorer. Now he has become the most capped outfield player I thought I should update the stats. Continue reading
Relegated Stadia from the Premier League
From the Premier League this season (2015/16) Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Norwich City were relegated. This represents the largest capacity of stadia relegated from the division since only 3 teams were relegated (a total of 122,331). This post contains the data (stadia capacity) for each of the relegated teams, since the 1995/96 season. Continue reading
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Easy way to remember sin, cos and tan values
One of my tutees showed me an easy way to remember sin and cos values for the “common” angles, and once you’ve got those you’ve also got tan, cosec, sec and cot. Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics
Correlation between Astronaut name and Apollo mission
Perhaps we’ve finally worked out Deke Slayton’s method for choosing the Apollo crews, basing it on alphabetical order… Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics
Rooney Scores 50 goals for England – the data
So Wayne Rooney (I assume in the future it will be Sir Wayne) has broken the England goal scoring record with 50 goals. A lot of discussion has therefore been about if he is the greatest English attacker of all time or not. Let’s look at the data. Continue reading
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Safe Reboot of Locked Linux Machine
Sometimes your Linux machine will lock up, it just happens. But before you reach for the reset button try and use the magic SysRq key combination to try and perform a safe reboot. Continue reading
Posted in Linux
Quick way to remove X Server for running a headless server
I use my Raspberry Pi as a headless server so do not need anything that relies on X11, this is a quick way to get rid of everything that depends on X11 to save some space. Continue reading
How far is 1 astronomical unit (AU)?
An astronomical unit (AU) is a commonly used unit in astronomy, but what exactly is its value?
Making files and folders lowercase
Very occasionally I want to make all the files and folders of a particular directory lowercase (usually when porting an existing directory structure from Windows to Linux) this is how I do it. Continue reading
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Math(s) can be confusing…
I meet a man walking down the street, who I know has two children. He introduces me to his son, what is the probability that his other child is a girl? Continue reading