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April 11, 2024 at 12:13 PM by Dr. Drang In this morning’s blog post, John D. Cook talks about poker hands and their probabilities. In particular, he says For a five-card hand, the probabilities of 0, 1, or 2 pair are 0.5012, 0.4226, and 0.0475 respectively. Upon reading this, I assumed there’d be an explanation of h...

April 3, 2024 at 3:33 PM by Dr. Drang I thought I’d run through how the moment diagrams in the last post were made. It’ll probably take two articles to get through it all. Let’s start with the three simple spans. We’ll generate the moment diagram for a single simply supported beam and then apply it to each individua...