Department of Mathematics
Spring 2003
MACM 202 - Introduction to Discrete & Continuous Models
Class Webpage
SFU Resources
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  lecture notes (reserve list)
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  webct & discussion group (webct.sfu.ca)
The Last Weeks in MACM202:
- 03 April
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  final exam info
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      saturday 12 april, 8:40am
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      location: AQ3153
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      open notes, text & lab reports
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      simple non-symbolic calculator
required
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      submit report portfolios: best to have copies of the graded reports
- 02 April
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  three towers (link)
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  empirical distribution function for a measure of randomness in the shuffling of a 52-card deck
- 01 April
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  this is the REAL lab
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  the real lab instructions (w13reallab.txt)
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  perfect shuffle script (w13shuffle.m)
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  prime theorems (scans)
- 01 April
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  STOP, this is NOT today's lab
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  read these for tomorrow's lecture
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  tomorrow's demo instructions (w13lab.txt)
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  random deck EDF (w13random.m)
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  function to make random GSR permutation matrices (shuffle.m), in matlab: shuffle(Ncards)
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  GSR shuffle info (link)
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  randomizing the deck article (link)
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  humour compliments of professor dubiel
- 31 March
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  card shuffling demo (w12shuff8.m), for small Ncards use full(Pn) to show the matrix
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  web analysis (link)
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  using maple's order(2,N-1) function,
the plot below shows the # of perfect shuffles needed to perfectly
restore a deck of N cards
- 24 March
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  card shuffling (link)
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  shuffling demo (link)
Web Resources & Interest:
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  shuffling article (link)
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  shuffling article (link)
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  perfect shuffle (link)
History:
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  week 01: complex contour integration
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  week 02: fourier image processing
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  week 03: game theory I
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  week 04: game theory II
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  week 05: queueing theory I
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  week 06: queueing theory II
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  week 07: maple models
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  week 08: midterm week
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  week 09: goodness-of-fit
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  week 10: theory of structures
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  week 11: modelling caribou