Showing posts with label tex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tex. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2009

iMac delayed!

FedEx failed to deliver. They said they tried, but I think they went to the wrong place since I was home, had pre-signed for it, and there was no door delivery tag. So I hope tomorrow I will get it.

In the meantime, I was working with TexWorks on my PC and had to do epstopdf. This requires shell-escape for the TeX version I have (2007). To enable it, I went to Edit->preferences->Typesetting->Edit PdfLatex and in arguments, placed --shell-escape

Security risk, I suppose. But it works.

Also, had fun estimating (26 nCr 3 )/(100 nCr 3) used 25^3/100^3 which is 1/4^3 which is 1/64. So that is between 1/50 =.02 and 1/100 = .01 It is closer to the 2 so I went with .016. That happens to be very close to what the combinatorial ratio is while 1/64 is more like .015625.