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May the best man win Jan 9
League play is often a poor way of determining the best sports team, according to statistical research performed in the US. By analysing an imaginary set of teams with known ability, physicists have found that normal league play requires an enormous number of games to be played for the best team to be identified with high certainty. Instead, the physicists suggest that "sequential elimination" is a fairer and more efficient method (arXiv.org/physics/0612217).
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The lost art of the letter Jan 9
The Internet is affecting not only how scientists communicate, but also how future science historians will have to work, says Robert P Crease
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