OLG, the Ontario Lottery Corporation, announced a new hosting fee formula for casinos and slots in the province. Have they finally “come clean” with this formula? Are they getting cleaner with the May 17, 2013 press release? Or does OLG simply plan to “clean up”?
My Previous Business Case Study against Gambling on an OLG Casino
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My recent Decoded Science article, “How to Find Pythagorean Dates for Any Year” explains how the Pythagorean Theorem for right angle triangles also defines special days for mathematicians.
Who Cares about the Pythagorean Theorem?

My recent article in Decoded Science, “How to Calculate Compound Interest”, explains the straightforward math for calculating compound interest. It links to reference sites, including…This article follows up my “How to Calculate Simple Interest”.
If you want to take charge of your personal finances, it’s absolutely essential that you understand the basics of how to calculate interest.
In Canada, consumer credit cards should…

The third and final article in my Decoded Pregnanacy series of “mathematical baby predictors while pregnant” is “How Tall Will Your Baby Be When He Grows Up? Calculating Height Early”.
Most other height prediction methods use the child’s height at age 2. However, Decoded Pregnancy is aimed at pregnant women.
The math to predict height is remarkably simple, even though it was based on statistical research.

My second Decoded Pregnancy article, “Will I Have a Boy or a Girl? Predicting Your Baby’s Gender”, examines whether the math of probability and statistics provides a reliable baby gender predictor during pregnancy.
Can math reliably predict your baby’s gender, even sooner than an ultrasound?