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James Naismith (NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
Basket Moon is set in Columbia County, New York. The book details a 19th-century boy who makes baskets and sells them in town, similar to Cooney's earlier book, Ox-Cart Man, which received the 1980 Caldecott Medal. He dreams of selling baskets in the town of Hudson, and finally makes the trip on foot with his father, under the full moon.
Basket Master: 1987 Commodore 64: Dinamic/Imagine-Sam & Ed Basketball: 1987 Commodore 64 - -Jordan vs. Bird: One on One: 1988 NES Commodore 64 Game Boy MS-DOS Genesis 1992: Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts: Magic Johnson's Fast Break: 1988 Arcade Amiga 1989 Commodore 64 1989 MS-DOS 1989 Amstrad CPC 1990 NES 1990 ZX Spectrum 1990 MSX: Arcadia ...
Random numbers are frequently used in algorithms such as Knuth's 1964-developed algorithm [1] for shuffling lists. (popularly known as the Knuth shuffle or the Fisher–Yates shuffle, based on work they did in 1938). In 1999, a new feature was added to the Pentium III: a hardware-based random number generator.
The interesting case is when the bin is selected at random, or at least partially at random. A powerful balls-into-bins paradigm is the "power of two random choices [2]" where each ball chooses two (or more) random bins and is placed in the lesser-loaded bin. This paradigm has found wide practical applications in shared-memory emulations ...
Mario Hoops 3-on-3, known in Europe as Mario Slam Basketball and in Japan as Mario Basket 3on3 (マリオバスケ 3on3, Mario Basuke 3on3), is a 2006 sports game developed by Square Enix and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS.
An unbiased random walk, in any number of dimensions, is an example of a martingale. For example, consider a 1-dimensional random walk where at each time step a move to the right or left is equally likely. A gambler's fortune (capital) is a martingale if all the betting games which the gambler plays are fair.