This spring, my wife and I took a vacation to Hawaii during which one of the highlights involved looking at the night sky near the top of Mauna Kea. Mauna Kea is the tallest peak on the big island towering over 13000 feet in the air.  It is known around the world as one of the best places on the planet to star gaze and numerous high powered telescopes are stationed there looking into the depths of the universe.

High above the clouds on a bumpy, gravel, winding mountain road, the …

On first blush, the answer to the above question would seem to be very little.  However, upon delving into it further, there is something interesting that comes into play.  To decode the question, we’ll start with Scrabble.
The power of the ‘S’
Playing Scrabble, one might come to wonder how the letter distribution was created.  It surely couldn’t be random, but what was the method to the final distribution?  The hypothesis one is most likely to arrive at is the letter distribution must match that of normal language usage.  In researching the …