Category: Algebraic Reasoning

COVID19 & How Rumors Spread

Math is the science helping us keep track of COVID19 and how to flattening the curve. In the article from Quanta Magazine, the spread of flu was compared to the spread of rumor. https://www.quantamagazine.org/flu-vaccines-and-the-math-of-herd-immunity-20180205/ If each day, each person who heard the rumor yesterday tells two new people, then after 30 days the rumor will …

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