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1.5: Examples of Scientific Computing

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    • Consider a list of 5 cities that you need to visit and return to where you started. If you know the distances between each pair of cities, what is the most efficient path (in terms of distance or time) that gets you to each city and return.
    • Poker is a card game in which certain sets of cards (hands) beat other hands. Determine the probability (or chance) of getting any particular hand in Poker.
    •  Given a dataset of Major League Baseball scores from 2000-2017, find the game with the largest score, most innings played, biggest winning margin, etc. We will look at these an other problems in this course.

    We will look at these an other problems in this course. 


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