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      <title>Football and happiness</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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      <category>arithmetics, exponentiation</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<strong>Football and happiness.</strong> 
<p>Happiness formula: an easy mathematical refreshment for this summer, that helps us not to forget exponentiation. </p>
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      <title>A black (and red) hole</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:43:36 +0200</pubDate>
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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks to a prize of half the proceeds of a football match, we learn about some numbers that attract the others so&nbsp;that they can't escape from them. </p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Mathematical sequences which lead to mathematical black holes. </p>
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      <title>Thanks</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:00:17 +0200</pubDate>
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<p>Matifutbol is one year old.</p>
<p>Thank you very much to all of you who liked my page, and those who didn’t like it but you tried to; thanks to the people who shared it, and to those who were about to do so; to every of the 25,000 Internet users around the world who visited it. </p>]]></description>
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      <title>Let's give away some balls.</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 6 Apr 2013 00:03:52 +0200</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Close packing. Geometry.</strong> </p>
<p>Organizers of Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup want to give away some official balls.</p>
<p>We face a close-packing problem in order to know if we can fill Maracana stadium with enough balls to satisfy the Championship organizers' wishes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.matifutbol.com/en/balls.html">http://www.matifutbol.com/en/balls.html</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; #matifutbol</p>
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      <title>The problem of the fair division.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Mar 2013 18:08:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some African football players want to play a <strong>benefit match</strong>. 
<p><strong>Eto'o</strong> and <strong>Drogba</strong> have been designated <strong>captains</strong> of the 2 teams, but they don't know how to split the rest of the players between their teams. </p>
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<p>Do you now how can they do so that <strong>both</strong> players be <strong>satisfied</strong>? </p>
<p>Do you dare to solve this other problem of lateral thinking?</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mesut &Ouml;zil and the Fermat point</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:19:36 +0100</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Mourinho</strong> is thinking about how to counter more effectivily the game of F.C. Barcelona midfielders.</p>
<p>That way, thanks to the tactical arrangement of a football team, we study one of the <strong>notable points of the triangle</strong> lesser known but with many practical applications:<strong> the Fermat point</strong>. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/triangle.eng.html">http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/triangle.eng.html</a> </p>
<p>#matifutbol #recreationalmaths </p>]]></description>
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      <title>A benefit match</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:27:18 +0100</pubDate>
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      <category>Arithmetic mean</category>
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<p>It's Christmas Day, and it's been held a <strong>benefit match</strong> for the Misunderstood Mathematicians. A player is sustituted, and the average age of the team rises 2 years. With this data, we work out an interesting reflection on <strong>arithmetical means and their variations</strong> related to the members of the group. </p>]]></description>
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      <title>And now, who should kick the penalty? The Simpson's paradox</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 5 Dec 2012 22:57:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Statistics</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/torreslampard1.jpg" width=131 height=90>&nbsp;<img style="WIDTH: 440px; HEIGHT: 90px" src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/penalti1.jpg" width=456 height=129><br/>A simple election on which player should kick a penalty leads us to the <strong>Simpson's paradox</strong> and its political implications in what we call <strong>Gerrymandering</strong>.]]></description>
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      <title>How to choose the best option. Llorente's hard decision</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/decision.eng.html</link>
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      <category>Taking decisions</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/calendario1.jpg" width=177 height=100>&nbsp;<img style="WIDTH: 80px; HEIGHT: 102px" src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/llorente2.jpg" width=112 height=156><br/>The problem of Fernando Llorente about which team he will choose to sign for, introduces us to the <strong>theory of taking decisions</strong> and the <strong>optimal stopping theory</strong>. Another puzzle of logic and strategy, which show us how we can take the best decissions in our daily life.]]></description>
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      <title>Does anyone tell the truth?</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/liars.html</link>
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      <category>Logic</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/capello1.jpg">&nbsp;<img style="WIDTH: 168px; HEIGHT: 91px" src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/gormandiceeldcha1.png" width=485 height=332><br/>A simple substitution becomes complicated by some players who<strong> lie or tell the truth</strong> depending on their position in the playing field. A problem of logical thinking. <strong>The paradox of the caterpillar and the lizard</strong>.]]></description>
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      <title>The golden goalkeeper and the Arrow paradox</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/glove.html</link>
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      <category>Voting</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/cech2.jpg">&nbsp;<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/iker1.jpg" width=107 height=94><br/>A gala for choosing the <strong>best goalkeeper</strong> of the decade leads us to the world of voting and its paradoxes, like <strong>Arrow's paradox</strong>.]]></description>
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      <title>Do you dare to count? A forward-and-back problem.</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:08:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/crosses.html</link>
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      <category>Strategy</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img style="WIDTH: 104px; HEIGHT: 132px" src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/entreno3.jpg" width=246 height=568>&nbsp;<img style="WIDTH: 262px; HEIGHT: 123px" src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/rejillaeng.png" width=997 height=368><br/>Sometimes, the most <strong>simple problems</strong> are the most difficult ones, if we don't aproach them correctly.]]></description>
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      <title>Which team will win the UEFA Champions League? Try to guess it with our fortune-tellers' help.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Probability</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/wembley2.jpg" width=140 height=93>&nbsp;<img style="WIDTH: 80px; HEIGHT: 91px" src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/adivino1.jpg" width=117 height=94><br/>Applying the basic properties of <strong>probability</strong>, try to discover which of the <strong>fortune-tellers</strong> will give us the best chances of guessing which team will win the <strong>Champions League-</strong>]]></description>
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      <title>Eurobirthdays 2012. The birthday paradox.</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/units/eurobirthdays.html</link>
      <author>contact@matifutbol.com</author>
      <category>Probability</category>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/medalla1.gif" width=89 height=93>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.matifutbol.com/docs/im/himno1.jpg" width=160 height=89><br/>Euro 2012. A practical example of <strong>the birthday paradox</strong>. Guess how many players share birthdays.]]></description>
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