Finding a Mall Parking Spot Using Mathematics Part I

Finding a Mall Parking Spot Using Mathematics Part I I am always amused when people are fascinated with simple demonstrations of the power of basic mathematics. We have become largely a Jaded society based on technological progress of the company that give us an increasing number of electronic devices. We have forgotten as the source of this technology achieved through the use of knowledge of mathematics and science and its applications in a practical way. As an educator and mathematician, have always a big smile when you can demonstrate the usefulness of knowing the rudimentary mathematics. A good, solid basic knowledge of geometry, arithmetic, algebra, and can go a long way toward understanding many fundamental laws of nature, and also allows a high degree of expertise to solve problems. People are always surprised when I explain how I can tell time on the beach with the sun, or the likelihood of using the general estimates, or seem incredible human calculator to multiply in my head. However, these feats are achievable, even for the ordinary person. That said, I can go to a sound interesting title of this article and explain how mathematics can also be used for that base, which seems unusual to find a parking space in a crowded shopping mall. We all know what can be frustrating, especially around the holiday shopping season. Now the man is an intelligent animal, and if you ask many people their method is faster than volunteers who have a great system. These systems range from harassment of people leaving a circle in the center to feed the hungry sharks waiting for the next open spot. Personally, I always had a problem with the methods described above and for this reason, I suppose, one day thinking about the problem and asked me if this might solve the problem of mathematics - or at least get to a more practical nature. Being a commercial center in large part due to rat love my wife of this, I had many opportunities to drop the front, and then begin the process of "Search and Destroy," or more simply, pending parking spaces. Being a fan of the two disciplines of mathematics, probability and statistics, I decided to see if the use of certain basic facts in these two areas can help solve the problem. So sit down by the mall waiting for a (not forgetting the time of going to the mall to be used on Saturday, where the spots were rare, and I want in a park near Macy's, where items were even more limited due to the small parking area), I started to make some assumptions and reflect deeply. Almost as if by chance, I have pieced together a rudimentary way, some quick calculations, and testing of hypotheses. I fully researched the busy parking lot, my favorite for the parking area, and provides that within an interval of not more than five minutes one of the favorite places available. And here's what inside of five minutes, a piece of land. I like. Over the next ten or fifteen visits a mall, I tried this method. Success after success after success. Analyze the basic assumptions used and tested in mathematics and again and again. Always worked. I have also demonstrated the method with the people in the car. The reaction was always a surprise when I tell you how long in a place that opens. For them, it always seems as if by magic, however, some thoughtful contemplation combined with the basic math is the glue that holds the mixture together. In an article of follow-up, I reveal the method and underlying assumptions and the mathematical (for those who are apprehensive about math, do not be afraid, for the explanation does not imply anything beyond the scope of the mathematical layman, and my particular strength is the ability to boil and esoteric understandable). For those who have read this far, I think that the realization of the broader implications of this: If math can help you find a parking space in a busy shopping center, what can you do? See you in Part II.