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Re: st: Question on interpretation of survey data: from the mean to the total
Stas Kolenikov <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: Question on interpretation of survey data: from the mean to the total
Sun, 12 Sep 2010 22:01:15 -0500
I would go with
svy : mean cars
svy : total cars if (household_head)
if "cars" is the variable where the number of cars in the HH is
stored. It does not matter what was the purpose of the data
collection, but you need to have a clear notion of the units of
sampling, weighting, and analysis. If the latter matches the ave #
cars times expanded # of HHs, that's great, but you won't be able to
get the standard errors around it. With the above syntax, you will.
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Laurie Molina <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> In my dataset each observation is a household and the weights are for
> households.
> In the survey there is a question about the number of cars of the household.
> So i am interested in the average number of cars of the HH.
> An also i am interested in the total number of cars owned by HH.
> To my understand it is ok to calculate the average number of cars of
> the HH, even with
> summarize cars[weight=factor].
> But if i get that mean, and i multiply it by the (expanded) number of
> observations (HH), is it ok to say that it is the total number of cars
> of the HH in the survey?
> Thank you very much again!
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Steve Samuels <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> --
>> In advance I would say that you should create a data set in which
>> each observation is a HH and the weight is an appropriate HH weight.
>> However to advise you further with some assurance, we would need to
>> know how the weights were computed-was there post-stratification or
>> "raking", for example and details about the design (clusters, stages
>> is too vague). including the -svyset- statement. Your current
>> approach is almost certainly wrong, because the denominator for -svy:
>> mean- will be individuals, not HH; it will be biased, because larger
>> HH will contribute more observations.
>> Steve
>> Steven J. Samuels
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>> Voice: 845-246-0774
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>> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Laurie Molina <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> I have a question on the interpretation of survey data.
>>> There is a survey in which the analysis units are the households and
>>> its members.
>>> Using the command svyset i have set the design characteristics of the
>>> survey: clusters, two stages, stratification and probabilistic.
>>> And i have asked stata for the mean of the number of cars in the households.
>>> Is it all right if i multiply the mean of the number of cars in the
>>> households by the expanded number of households to get the total
>>> number of cars of the households?
>>> Or does it depend on wheter the survey was designed to get the total
>>> number of cars of the households?
>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>> Laurie
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Trump Gave Theresa May What She Deserved. Poor Prime Minister May. She has not been able to get her Conservative Party to agree on a Brexit formula, members of the cabinet are deserting her left and right (mostly right), and now she gets sucker-punched by Donald Trump.
May, braving broad hostility to Trump throughout Britain, went out of her way to host a friendly visit for our lunatic president, assuming that Trump might reciprocate with a bit of gratitude. But Trump doesn't know from quid pro quo gratitude, except maybe when it comes to Vladimir Putin.
So while May and Trump were concluding a cordial dinner (salmon, beef, clotted cream ice cream) at Blenheim Palace, the right-wing tabloid The Sun published a startling interview in which Trump virtually endorsed the crackpot demagogue Boris Johnson to replace May as prime minister.
Johnson is basically the British Trump. He resigned as foreign minister earlier this week, ostensibly to protest the terms of May's proposed Brexit deal, but actually to plot a campaign to oust her in favor of himself.
Steve Bannon has been in Britain this week. He's a big fan of Johnson, and is working much of Europe to try to get more Trump-like figures to oust establishment pols.
The Trump-Johnson caper bears the characteristic signature of a Bannon operation. Trump doesn't quite have the deftness or knowledge of British politics to think it up himself.
Serves May right for giving a warm welcome to Trump. Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.
Germany a "Captive of Russia"? How About America a Captive of Texas? Germany, President Trump charged yesterday at the NATO summit, is "a captive of Russia." He was referencing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which, when completed, will enable Germany to get much of its natural gas from Russia.
By any other criteria, Germany might be said to be less of a Russian captive than Trump himself, though what Russian bounty has flowed to Trump over the years remains the subject of investigation—and is not the subject of these jottings.
Because the phenomenon of energy dependency upon a politically backward state compromising a nation's values is one Americans should know all too well. If Germany is a captive of Russia, then America is a captive of Texas.
The baleful influence of the oil industry on U.S. policy extends well beyond the climate-worsening policies of the Trump administration and the Republican Party (and some of the Democratic Party) generally. Dating back to the Hunt family and beyond, the oil fortunes of Texas, Oklahoma, and the rest of the fossil-fuel belt have funded generations of reactionary campaigns against liberal and moderate candidates in races where energy policy didn't figure at all.
For that matter, energy dependency has been the basis of U.S. support for the repressive monarchy of Saudi Arabia since 1945, even though the Islamic fundamentalism that the regime has supported and fostered has helped spawn the very terrorist organizations the U.S. has spent a fortune combating.
So Trump should be careful about alleging that energy dependency can compromise a nation's values and safety. By that metric, it's us—not the Germans—who are the club champions.
If Putin Is Trump's Chum, Why the Pressure to Spend More on NATO? OK, it's not exactly news when Trump contradicts himself, but consider this doozie:
Trump is excoriating America's NATO allies for failing to meet the agreed-upon target of spending at least 2 percent of GDP on the military. The U.S. spends close to 4 percent, and Trump has just urged NATO members to double their target to 4 percent, too.
But hold on. If memory serves, NATO was created to protect Western Europe against Soviet Russia.
The Kremlin is no longer Soviet, but its near-neighbors like the Baltic republics and Ukraine are all too aware that Russian territorial swagger has not disappeared. Donald Trump, however, seems to believe otherwise. If things go according to plan, he will go directly from the summit meetings bashing our NATO allies to a love-fest session with Putin.
So please explain: If Putin is a benign pussycat, why does NATO need to spend more money on the military—to contain a nation that Trump no longer considers a threat?
a) This is just an excuse to bash Europe.
b) Trump doesn't know, and he is oblivious to contradictions.
c) Whacking NATO is another way to suck up to Putin.
d) Europe is spending plenty, even if Putin is a problem.
e) All of the above.
Questions for Kavanaugh. From what we're now learning about Brett Kavanaugh, it's clear he thinks indicting a sitting conservative president would be a disaster. Whether he feels that way about a sitting liberal pope—in this case, Francis—isn't so clear. President Trump's pick to succeed Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court has written a great deal about how our system needs to defer to presidential power, and it's also apparent that he's a charter member of the Antonin Scalia/Pope Benedict Society for the Preservation of Patriarchal Norms (the Older, the Better).
One newer norm that Kavanaugh looks poised to uphold is that of answering no substantive questions during his upcoming Senate confirmation hearings. A newly released study documents that Trump's previous court pick, Neil Gorsuch, set the record for the highest percent of questions evaded during his hearings. Kavanaugh may well try to shatter Gorsuch's record, but if the senators on the judiciary committee allow him to get away with that, they'll not be doing their jobs.
The business of the Supreme Court is policymaking—that is, politics. It ratifies, modifies, or rejects the laws our elected officials enact, and in so doing, advances, confirms, or sets back the norms that we elect our legislators and chief executives to codify. As the replacement for the Court's longtime swing vote, Kavanaugh, not just a jurist but a longtime Republican operative, would have it in his power to repeal reproductive rights, uphold Republican gerrymanders, rule for corporations over workers and the claims of the environment, strike down the Affordable Care Act, and protect the man who nominated him from investigation and prosecution. These are all momentous questions of public policy, and as senators are presumably in the business of creating public policy, they need to ask him where he comes down on these issues.
In particular, the two pro-choice Republican senators, Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski, should announce—if they're really serious about preserving women's right to choose—that they won't vote to confirm Kavanaugh unless he declares publicly that we won't vote to repeal Roe v Wade. Democratic Senators Joe Donnelly, Heidi Heitkamp, and Joe Manchin should announce they won't vote to confirm Kavanaugh unless he publicly declares he won't vote to strike down the Affordable Care Act. The public policy questions involved here are too fundamental to give Kavanaugh a pass on.
This is not a course of action that senators have taken before, at least that I'm aware of. But it should be precisely this course that the many groups opposing Kavanaugh's confirmation demand of the senators who'll cast the deciding votes. It should be the course that Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer demands of his colleagues, and that Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, sets as the norm when or before the hearings commence.
Americans elect their legislators and executives based on those candidates' positions on fundamental questions of national direction. Now that the Supreme Court may be handed over to a new majority that could well reverse or retard fundamental national directions, the positions that Kavanaugh would take if confirmed are no less important than the positions of a candidate for president. The only way that he could be compelled to reveal those positions would be if Collins, Murkowski, Manchin, & Co. announced he wouldn't get their vote if he evaded answering where he stood. Americans demand that standard of their candidates; our elected officials should demand no less of a nominee who could yank the nation back to a radically less egalitarian time if confirmed as the next justice of the Supreme Court.
As Ohio Goes. Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Ohio by more than 450,000 votes in 2016. Yet Ohio could well lead the blue wave in 2018.
Senator Sherrod Brown, a progressive who was once a key target of Republicans, is up by 13 to 17 points in his re-election campaign, depending on which poll you follow. Former Attorney General Richard Cordray, who also served as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is leading in the race for governor.
Several House seats could also flip. In their extreme gerrymandering of Ohio, Republicans got so greedy that they distributed likely Republican voters rather thinly—so that in a state where the popular vote for Congress hovers around 50–50, the result was 12 seats for Republicans and just four for Democrats. But in a wave election, where swing voters switch to Democrat, there aren't enough Republican voters to go around, and several of these designer seats could fall to the Democrats.
Brown, as much as any progressive Democrat in public life, emphasizes pocketbook issues. He is also a down-the-line progressive on social issues such as abortion and LGBT rights—but he leads with the economics. That's why socially conservative blue-collar voters cut Brown some slack on the avant-garde social stuff. They know he is on their side. The rest of the party could learn something from Brown.
So, for that matter, could political commentators, who keep blathering on about the dangers of Democrats moving "too far to the left." But you need to distinguish economics from social issues.
Progressive populism on economics is always a winning formula for Democrats. It is indeed possible to move too far left-fringe on social issues and scare off mainstream voters, but popular economics provides a lot of inoculation on issues like abortion rights, civil liberties, immigration reform, criminal justice reform, and civil and human rights broadly defined.
Commentators need to get it through their heads that there is a difference between left on economic issues and left on social issues. And of course Wall Street on economics and left on social issues is the worst of all worlds. RIP Hillary '16.
Kielbasa Republic. Question for today: What exactly is the difference between the way Poland's autocratic rulers have disabled its Supreme Court and the way the Republicans have taken over the U.S. courts?
Poland, where the governing party has an absolute majority in parliament, is in trouble with the leaders of the European Union and many of its own outraged citizens for jamming through a measure requiring mandatory retirement at 65 for Supreme Court justices. This thinly disguised coup will force the ouster of some 27 of 72 sitting justices, and turn the Court into a rubber stamp, removing the last obstacle to full dictatorship.
In the U.S., Republicans under Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pursued a policy of blocking as many Obama judicial appointments as possible, slowing the process way down, and bargaining with the administration to appoint more centrist nominees as a condition of agreeing to a vote at all. This was in sharp contrast to the way Democrats treated appointees of President George W. Bush, when only the most extreme nominees were challenged.
When a Supreme Court seat came open after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, McConnell pursued the unprecedented course of simply refusing to act on Obama's nomination of the relatively moderate appellate judge Merrick Garland. As a consequence, Trump got to fill a seat that was rightfully Obama's.
So, what is the difference between destruction of an independent judiciary in Poland and the U.S.? Mainly, timing. In Poland, the coup has been abrupt. In the U.S., it has been a slow roll. The outcome isn't that different—hijacked, politicized courts.
Adding Insult (More Precisely, Discomfort and Anger) to Injury. Airline passengers, abandon all hope. On Tuesday, Donald Trump's Federal Aviation Administration decreedthat it would do nothing about the relentless shrinkage of airplane seats and legroom. Rejecting a plea from Flyers' Rights (a passengers' organization) and a judge's order that it reconsider its position, the FAA said that such concerns as passenger comfort were none of its business.
Over the past couple of decades, the average width of a coach airline seat has shrunk from 18.5 inches to 17 inches. The average amount of seat pitch (the distance between your seat and the seat in front of you) in coach has shrunk from 35 inches to 31 inches, though on some airlines it's been scrunched to 28 inches.
The size of the average passenger has not shrunk correspondingly.
If passengers flying in steerage—excuse me, in coach—have problems with the FAA's obeisance to the airlines, they're left with what is effectively the non-option of imploring the airlines themselves. However, the years of seat shrinkage coincide with the years that airlines have increasingly come under the control of private-equity firms and other large-scale investors bent on squeezing more seats on to the planes and more profits out of the airlines. In 2015, a former private-equity executive and American Airlines board member penned a gushing column in The Wall Street Journal, celebrating how private equity's ownership of American had eliminatedthe "inefficiencies" (such as the decent treatment of passengers) that had reduced the airline's profits. Just yesterday, the Journal reportedthat a private-equity firm had purchased Sun Country Airlines.
Squeezed between the voraciousness of finance capital and the indifference to public welfare of Trump's regulatory agencies, the American airline passenger has been officially told to lump it—and the lump had better be small.
How Big Business and Big Banks Are Using Their Tax Windfalls. In the topsy-turvy world of the past few weeks, it's comforting to know that some things haven't changed. Economic inequality, for instance, continues to surge.
Recent data make clear what any sentient observer could have predicted a year ago: The benefits of the Trump tax cut have gone chiefly to major shareholders, with little to no impact on either corporate investment or workers' wages. "For the remainder of 2018," S&P Global's Howard Silverblatt toldThe Washington Post's Heather Long, "expectations are high for record corporate expenditures in both buybacks and dividends."
Indeed, in the first quarter of 2018, stock buybacks were the highest ever recorded ($189 billion). By contrast, wage increases are just keeping pace with inflation, and Morgan Stanley reports that capital spending by American corporations is "past its peak."
Of course, you can't invest or give your employees raises if you dole out all your money to your shareholders. Last week, after the Federal Reserve announced that all six U.S. mega-banks had passed their stress tests, the banks announced how much they planned to funnel to their shareholders over the coming year. The New York Times compared those numbers to the banks' forecasts of how much they'd earn in the coming year, and the results tell us a good deal about the absurd state of the American economy. Bank of America planned to direct 95 percent of its anticipated profits to its shareholders in buybacks and dividends; JP Morgan Chase came in at 98 percent; Citigroup raised the ante to 128 percent; and not to be outdone, Wells Fargo won the bidding at 141 percent. (Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs came in at 80 percent and 69 percent, respectively, but these lowball numbers may be due to the fact that, as investment banks, they not only have to pay their shareholders but their many partners as well.)
How much, exactly, that leaves for loans is a good question.
You Never Know What You've Got Till It's Gone. Are the centrists in the Democratic Party actually missing the labor movement now that the Supreme Court has dealt public-employee unions what Republicans hope will be a knockout blow? Noam Scheiber of the Times has a really smart piece detailing all of the ways the unions help Democrats and grassroots advocacy groups, and how weaker public-sector unions will set back not just workers but progressive politics generally.
This belated discovery by centrist Democrats of the value of a strong labor movement is a little like Eisenhower's famous farewell address criticizing the military-industrial complex. Where the hell were they when we needed them?
The Republicans sure figured out how important unions were to Democrats, even if many Democrats didn't.
We would have a much stronger labor movement, whose voting strength would surely have spared America Donald Trump, if only the last three Democratic presidents had made trade unionism a higher priority. But neither Obama, nor Clinton, nor Carter (though they all had good cabinet and subcabinet appointees at the Department of Labor) put any political muscle behind reforms of the Wagner Act needed to stop union-busting and making it possible for workers to organize without risking their jobs.
Those damned pesky unions—opposing corporate designs for trade that organized labor resisted, resisting deregulation of Wall Street, and challenging the Obama administration's embrace of a brand of education reform that scapegoated public schools and schoolteachers. The real power players like Robert Rubin under Clinton (or maybe Clinton under Rubin), and his clones in the Obama administration, were opposed to unions and did not lift a finger to help them.
So now, when we need a labor movement more than ever, unions have even less backing from the government or from the rules of the game—and will have to rebuild labor strength one worker at a time. That may yet succeed. But truth be told, the presidential Democratic Party and its allied centrist theorists and Wall Street masters has been a pretty feeble ally of organized labor. Now we all pay the price.
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We believe that we can. That's why we will keep on keeping on—with your support.
Please enjoy the July 4th break and let's all remember the republic for which it stands.
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One of our members has been spotted by one of my Work Collegues. (Who knows Bofa due to all my stickers,lol)
They were spotted at Shell Island, Wales about 2 or 3 Weeks Ago.
My work Collegue says they were in a Bergundy or Dark Red Landy 90 with BOFA STICKERS all over it. And he thinks they were removing the rear roof.
My work collegue was also in a very noticable car ( A Bright White Nissan Elgrand Jap Import People Carrier, with BLING BLING Chrome Alloys)
He says who ever it was and him kept having occasional eye contact, but never spoke, lol
Who was it then, anyone know.


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Holly Springs High makes U.S. News Best High Schools list
Six Triangle schools, including four from western Wake, received top honors Tuesday from U.S. News & World Report's 2014 Best High Schools list.
Green Hope High in Cary was the top North Carolina school on the newsmagazine's list, ranking 304th nationally. It received a "gold medal" for its performance with all students in the list posted early Tuesday.
Five local schools received a "silver medal," ranking in the top 2,000 nationally: Panther Creek High in Cary at No. 686, Cary High at No. 1,116, Holly Springs High at No. 1,202, Kestrel Heights School in Durham at No. 1,744 and Hillside New Tech High in Durham at No. 1,997.
The U.S. News list differs sharply from those put out by The Washington Post and Newsweek. While all three lists look at data such as the number of Advanced Placement exams taken, only U.S. News uses state test results for the performance of low-income and minority students.
"I'll let people decide which one is better," Bob Morse, director of data research for U.S. News & World Report, said in an interview Monday. "We're measuring something different. Our methodology makes it harder to get on the list."
Morse said some schools that fared well on the other lists, such as Enloe High in Raleigh and East Chapel Hill High, didn't make the U.S. News rankings because the minority and low-income students weren't performing well enough.
But Morse said some schools – such as Raleigh Charter High, Woods Charter in Chatham County and Durham School of the Arts – weren't ranked by U.S. News because they were missing some data in the files given to the rankers by the state.
U.S. News used state reading and math tests to see whether more than 31,200 public high schools nationally are doing better than expected overall and whether the schools' black, Hispanic and low-income students were exceeding state averages. Schools that cleared the first two hurdles were then judged on their college readiness, based on participation and performance on Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate exams.
"Both the U.S. News and Newsweek lists give too much emphasis to test scores, and thus too much to family income, in my view, but this is a subject on which reasonable school rankers can disagree," Jay Mathews, education columnist for The Washington Post and developer of the newspaper's ranking formula, wrote earlier this month.
The rankings were based on 2011-12 school year data. The top two area schools on the U.S. News list, Green Hope and Panther Creek, had the smallest percentages of low-income students among the Wake County school system's high schools that year.
Go to www.usnews.com to view the list.


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I have written about reputation in the past and continue to evolve my thinking on the subject. I had an interesting interaction last weekend with Lillie Coney of EPIC while on a panel together at ALA. Lillie described the legal frameworks that exist to both protect and circumvent our privacy as a lawyer and a privacy expert she described the steps necessary to strengthen our privacy position in the law. I found myself pushing back on Lillie; expressing that Reputation systems are just as important as systems of accountability for privacy as legal frameworks. If we had more time I think we might have had an interesting discussion on the subject.
Here's the summary I reached in my head: I do not deny that the legal system works to protect our privacy interests at certain levels. However, as an individual with a compaint against a large company I have very little recourse. For me to take action, personally, against a large corporation is prohibitavly time consuming and costly. I believe that robust reputation systems can help give me a way to have a voice.
We know that there are places that the legal system works. We know that there are places that reputation systems work. There is a gap between these 2 places where very little works. Lille was explaining how we fill that gap with legal framework. I propose that we can also fill that gap with well constructed reputation systems. I don't think this is an either-or situation; together these things can provide robust protection and accountability that is available to everyone.
My point is that while those of us who think about reputation recognize the importance of the legal frameworks, I'm not sure that the people who work on the legal frameworks recognize the importance of the reputation systems.
What do you think?
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Arnoldi Anthony "Tony" Cruz (August 18, 1986 in Palm Beach, Florida) is a Minor League Baseball catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. From Okaloosa-Walton College and Middle Georgia College, he was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 26th Round (802nd overall) of the 2007 amateur entry draft.
On May 23, 2011, Cruz was called up for the first time when Gerald Laird was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a right index finger fracture.
On May 24th, 2011, Tony Cruz made his major league debut as a starter. He went 3 for 5 with 2 singles and a double. Awards/Honors 2008 FSL Mid-Season All-Star


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We saw this coming.
A little less than a week after Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher scrounged up an excerpt from President Obama's book detailing how he ate dog meat as a child in Indonesia, the interest group Dogs Against Obama has just launched an ad slamming the president.
Now Check Out Some Of The Funniest Memes >
The new ad features a number of pictures of adorable puppies, like the one on the left, basically asking the president not to eat them.
The voice-over then asks: "Should we have a President that admits to devouring man's best friend?"
The group has also launched a Tumblr where visitors can see all the images featured in the ad and more. Judging by how long the Seamus saga has lasted, we don't see this one going away anytime soon.


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Michael Imperioli in US remake of Mad Dogs#1
Just to let people know that Imperioli is starring in the new Amazon pilot of the remake of a British series called Mad Dogs. It's about a group of 4 guys who take a trip to Belize to see an old friend when events take a unexpected and dark turn. I'm going to watch it tomorrow to see if it's any good. Amazon has green-lighted it for a series so it should be good.
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Combinatorics, also called combinatorial mathematics, the field of mathematics concerned with problems of selection, arrangement, and operation within a finite or discrete system. Included is the closely related area of combinatorial geometry.
One of the basic problems of combinatorics is to determine the number of possible configurations (e.g., graphs, designs, arrays) of a given type. Even when the rules specifying the configuration are relatively simple, enumeration may sometimes present formidable difficulties. The mathematician may have to be content with finding an approximate answer or at least a good lower and upper bound.
In mathematics, generally, an entity is said to "exist" if a mathematical example satisfies the abstract properties that define the entity. In this sense it may not be apparent that even a single configuration with certain specified properties exists. This situation gives rise to problems of existence and construction. There is again an important class of theorems that guarantee the existence of certain choices under appropriate hypotheses. Besides their intrinsic interest, these theorems may be used as existence theorems in various combinatorial problems.
Finally, there are problems of optimization. As an example, a function f, the economic function, assigns the numerical value f(x) to any configuration x with certain specified properties. In this case the problem is to choose a configuration x0 that minimizes f(x) or makes it ε = minimal—that is, for any number ε > 0, f(x0) f(x) + ε, for all configurations x, with the specified properties.
Early developments
Certain types of combinatorial problems have attracted the attention of mathematicians since early times. Magic squares, for example, which are square arrays of numbers with the property that the rows, columns, and diagonals add up to the same number, occur in the I Ching, a Chinese book dating back to the 12th century bc. The binomial coefficients, or integer coefficients in the expansion of (a + b)n, were known to the 12th-century Indian mathematician Bhāskara, who in his Līlāvatī ("The Graceful"), dedicated to a beautiful woman, gave the rules for calculating them together with illustrative examples. "Pascal's triangle," a triangular array of binomial coefficients, had been taught by the 13th-century Persian philosopher Naṣīr ad-Dīn aḷ-Ṭūsī.
In the West, combinatorics may be considered to begin in the 17th century with Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, both of France, who discovered many classical combinatorial results in connection with the development of the theory of probability. The term combinatorial was first used in the modern mathematical sense by the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his Dissertatio de Arte Combinatoria ("Dissertation Concerning the Combinational Arts"). He foresaw the applications of this new discipline to the whole range of the sciences. The Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was finally responsible for the development of a school of authentic combinatorial mathematics beginning in the 18th century. He became the father of graph theory when he settled the Königsberg bridge problem, and his famous conjecture on Latin squares was not resolved until 1959.
In England, Arthur Cayley, near the end of the 19th century, made important contributions to enumerative graph theory, and James Joseph Sylvester discovered many combinatorial results. The British mathematician George Boole at about the same time used combinatorial methods in connection with the development of symbolic logic, and the combinatorial ideas and methods of Henri Poincaré, which developed in the early part of the 20th century in connection with the problem of n bodies, have led to the discipline of topology, which occupies the centre of the stage of mathematics. Many combinatorial problems were posed during the 19th century as purely recreational problems and are identified by such names as "the problem of eight queens" and "the Kirkman school girl problem." On the other hand, the study of triple systems begun by Thomas P. Kirkman in 1847 and pursued by Jakob Steiner, a Swiss-born German mathematician, in the 1850s was the beginning of the theory of design. Among the earliest books devoted exclusively to combinatorics are the German mathematician Eugen Netto's Lehrbuch der Combinatorik (1901; "Textbook of Combinatorics") and the British mathematician Percy Alexander MacMahon's Combinatory Analysis (1915–16), which provide a view of combinatorial theory as it existed before 1920.
Combinatorics during the 20th century
Many factors have contributed to the quickening pace of development of combinatorial theory since 1920. One of these was the development of the statistical theory of the design of experiments by the English statisticians Ronald Fisher and Frank Yates, which has given rise to many problems of combinatorial interest; the methods initially developed to solve them have found applications in such fields as coding theory. Information theory, which arose around midcentury, has also become a rich source of combinatorial problems of a quite new type.
Another source of the revival of interest in combinatorics is graph theory, the importance of which lies in the fact that graphs can serve as abstract models for many different kinds of schemes of relations among sets of objects. Its applications extend to operations research, chemistry, statistical mechanics, theoretical physics, and socioeconomic problems. The theory of transportation networks can be regarded as a chapter of the theory of directed graphs. One of the most challenging theoretical problems, the four-colour problem (see below) belongs to the domain of graph theory. It has also applications to such other branches of mathematics as group theory.
The development of computer technology in the second half of the 20th century is a main cause of the interest in finite mathematics in general and combinatorial theory in particular. Combinatorial problems arise not only in numerical analysis but also in the design of computer systems and in the application of computers to such problems as those of information storage and retrieval.
Statistical mechanics is one of the oldest and most productive sources of combinatorial problems. Much important combinatorial work has been done by applied mathematicians and physicists since the mid-20th century—for example, the work on Ising models (see below The Ising problem).
In pure mathematics, combinatorial methods have been used with advantage in such diverse fields as probability, algebra (finite groups and fields, matrix and lattice theory), number theory (difference sets), set theory (Sperner's theorem), and mathematical logic (Ramsey's theorem).
In contrast to the wide range of combinatorial problems and the multiplicity of methods that have been devised to deal with them stands the lack of a central unifying theory. Unifying principles and cross connections, however, have begun to appear in various areas of combinatorial theory. The search for an underlying pattern that may indicate in some way how the diverse parts of combinatorics are interwoven is a challenge that faces mathematicians in the last quarter of the 20th century.
Problems of enumeration
Permutations and combinations
Binomial coefficients
An ordered set a1, a2,…, ar of r distinct objects selected from a set of n objects is called a permutation of n things taken r at a time. The number of permutations is given by nPn = n(n − 1)(n − 2)⋯ (n − r + 1). When r = n, the number nPr = n(n − 1)(n − 2)⋯ is simply the number of ways of arranging n distinct things in a row. This expression is called factorial n and is denoted by n!. It follows that nPr = n!/(n − r)!. By convention 0! = 1.
A set of r objects selected from a set of n objects without regard to order is called a combination of n things taken r at a time. Because each combination gives rise to r! permutations, the number of combinations, which is written (n/r), can be expressed in terms of factorials
The number (n/r) is called a binomial coefficient because it occurs as the coefficient of prqn − r in the binomial expansion—that is, the re-expression of (q + p)n in a linear combination of products of p and q
in the binomial expansion is the probability that an event the chance of occurrence of which is p occurs exactly r times in n independent trials (see probability theory).
The answer to many different kinds of enumeration problems can be expressed in terms of binomial coefficients. The number of distinct solutions of the equation x1 + x2 +⋯+ xn = m, for example, in which m is a non-negative integer m ≥ n and in which only non-negative integral values of xi are allowed is expressible this way, as was found by the 17th–18th-century French-born British mathematician Abraham De Moivre
Multinomial coefficients
If S is a set of n objects and if n1, n2,…, nk are non-negative integers satisfying n1 + n2 +⋯+ nk = n, then the number of ways in which the objects can be distributed into k boxes, X1, X2,…, Xk, such that the box Xi contains exactly ni objects is given in terms of a ratio constructed of factorials
This number, called a multinomial coefficient, is the coefficient in the multinomial expansion of the nth power of the sum of the {pi}
If all of the {pi} are non-negative and sum to 1 and if there are k possible outcomes in a trial in which the chance of the ith outcome is pi, then the ith summand in the multinomial expansion is the probability that in n independent trials the ith outcome will occur exactly ni times, for each i, 1 i k.
Recurrence relations and generating functions
If fn is a function defined on the positive integers, then a relation that expresses fn + k as a linear combination of function values of integer index less than n + k, in which a fixed constant in the linear combination is written ai, is called a recurrence relation
The relation together with the initial values f0, f1,…, fk − 1 determines fn for all n. The function F(x) constructed of a sum of products of the type fnxn, the convergence of which is assumed in the neighbourhood of the origin, is called the generating function of fn
The set of the first n positive integers will be written Xn. It is possible to find the number of subsets of Xn containing no two consecutive integers, with the convention that the null set counts as one set. The required number will be written fn. A subset of the required type is either a subset of Xn − 1 or is obtained by adjoining n to a subset of Xn − 2. Therefore fn is determined by the recurrence relation fn = fn − 1 + fn − 2 with the initial values f0 = 1, f1 = 2. Thus f2 = 3, f3 = 5, f4 = 8, and so on. The generating function F(x) of fn can be calculated
and from this a formula for the desired function fn can be obtained
That fn = fn-1 + fn-2 can now be directly checked.
A partition of a positive integer n is a representation of n as a sum of positive integers n = x1 + x2 +⋯+ xk, xi ≥ 1, i = 1, 2,…, k. The numbers xi are called the parts of the partition. The for this is the number of ways of putting k − 1 separating marks in the n − 1 spaces between n dots in a row. The theory of unordered partitions is much more difficult and has many interesting features. An unordered partition can be standardized by listing the parts in a decreasing order. Thus n = x1 + x2 +⋯+ xk, x1 ≥ x2 ≥⋯≥ xk ≥ 1. In what follows, partition will mean an unordered partition.
The number of partitions of n into k parts will be denoted by Pk(n), and a recurrence formula for it can be obtained from the definition
This recurrence formula, together with the initial conditions Pk(n) = 0 if n < k, and Pk(k) = 1 determines Pk(n). It can be shown that Pk(n) depends on the value of n (mod k!), in which the notation x ≡ a (mod b) means that x is any number that, if divided by b, leaves the same remainder as a does. For example, P3(n) = n2 + cn, in which cn = 0, −1/12, −1/3, +1/4, −1/3, or −1/12, according as n is congruent to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 (mod 6). P(n), which is a sum over all values of k from 1 to n of Pk(n), denotes the number of partitions of n into n or fewer parts.
The Ferrer diagram
Many results on partitions can be obtained by the use of Ferrers' diagram. The diagram of a partition is obtained by putting down a row of squares equal in number to the largest part, then immediately below it a row of squares equal in number to the next part, and so on. Such a diagram for 14 = 5 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 1 is shown in Figure 1.
By rotating the Ferrers' diagram of the partition about the diagonal, it is possible to obtain from the partition n = x1 + x2 +⋯+ xk the conjugate partition n = x1* + x2* +⋯xn*, in which xi* is the number of parts in the original partition of cardinality i or more. Thus the conjugate of the partition of 14 already given is 14 = 5 + 4 + 3 + 1 + 1. Hence, the following result is obtained:
(F1) The number of partitions of n into k parts is equal to the number of partitions of n with k as the largest part.
Other results obtainable by using Ferrers' diagrams are:
(F2) The number of self-conjugate partitions of n equals the number of partitions of n with all parts unequal and odd.
(F3) the number of partitions of n into unequal parts is equal to the number of partitions of n into odd parts.
Generating functions can be used with advantage to study partitions. For example, it can be proved that:
(G1) The generating function F1(x) of P(n), the number of partitions of the integer n, is a product of reciprocals of terms of the type (1 − xk), for all positive integers k, with the convention that P(0) = 1
(G2) The generating function F2(x) of the number of partitions of n into unequal parts is a product of terms like (1 + xk), for all positive integers k
(G3) The generating function F3(x) of the number of partitions of x consisting only of odd parts is a product of reciprocals of terms of the type (1 − xk), for all positive odd integers k
Thus to prove (F3) it is necessary only to show that the generating functions described in (G2) and (G3) are equal. This method was used by Euler.
The principle of inclusion and exclusion: derangements
For a case in which there are N objects and n properties A1, A2, · · · An, the number N(A1, A2), for example, will be the number of objects that possess the properties A1, A2. If N(Ā1, Ā2, · · ·, Ān) is the number of objects possessing none of the properties A1, A2, · · ·, An, then this number can be computed as an alternating sum of sums involving the numbers of objects that possess the properties
This is the principle of inclusion and exclusion expressed by Sylvester.
The permutation of n elements that displaces each object is called a derangement. The permutations themselves may be the objects and the property i may be the property that a permutation does not displace the ith element. In such a case, N = n! and N(A1, A2) = (n − 2)!, for example. Hence the number Dn of derangements can be shown to be approximated by n!/e
This number was first obtained by Euler. If n persons check their hats in a restaurant and if the waiter loses the checks and returns the hats at random, the chance that no one receives his own hat is Dn/n! = e−1 approximately. It is surprising that the approximate answer is independent of n. To six places of decimals, e−1 = 0.367879. When n = 6, the error of approximation is less than 0.0002.
If n is expressed as the product of powers of its prime factors p1, p2,…pk, and if the objects are the integers less than or equal to n, and if Ai is the property of being divisible by pi, then Sylvester's formula gives, as the number of integers less than n and prime to it, a function of n, written ϕ(n), composed of a product of n and k factors of the type (1 − 1/pi)
The function ϕ(n) is the Euler function.
Polya's theorem
It is required to make a necklace of n beads out of an infinite supply of beads of k different colours. The number of different necklaces, c (n, k), that can be made is given by the reciprocal of n times a sum of terms of the type ϕ(n) kn/d, in which the summation is over all divisors d of n and ϕ is the Euler function
Though the problem of the necklaces appears to be frivolous, the formula given above can be used to solve a difficult problem in the theory of Lie algebras, of some importance in modern physics.
The general problem of which the necklace problem is a special case was solved by the Hungarian-born U.S. mathematician George Polya in a famous 1937 memoir in which he established connections between groups, graphs, and chemical bonds. It has been applied to enumeration problems in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.
The Möbius inversion theorem
In 1832 the German astronomer and mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius proved that, if f and g are functions defined on the set of positive integers, such that f evaluated at x is a sum of values of g evaluated at divisors of x, then inversely g at x can be evaluated as a sum involving f evaluated at divisors of x
In 1964 the U.S. mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota obtained a powerful generalization of this theorem, providing a fundamental unifying principle of enumeration. One consequence of Rota's theorem is the following:
If f and g are functions defined on subsets of a finite set A, such that f(A) is a sum of terms g(S), in which S is a subset of A, then g(A) can be expressed in terms of f
Special problems
Despite the general methods of enumeration already described, there are many problems in which they do not apply and which therefore require special treatment. Two of these are described below, and others will be met further in this article.
The Ising problem
A rectangular m × n grid is made up of unit squares, each coloured either red or green. How many different colour patterns are there if the number of boundary edges between red squares and green squares is prescribed?
This problem, though easy to state, proved very difficult to solve. A complete and rigorous solution was not achieved until the early 1960s. The importance of the problem lies in the fact that it is the simplest model that exhibits the macroscopic behaviour expected from certain natural assumptions made at the microscopic level. Historically, the problem arose from an early attempt, made in 1925, to formulate the statistical mechanics of ferromagnetism.
The three-dimensional analogue of the Ising problem remains unsolved in spite of persistent attacks.
Self-avoiding random walk
A random walk consists of a sequence of n steps of unit length on a flat rectangular grid, taken at random either in the x- or the y-direction, with equal probability in each of the four directions. What is the number Rn of random walks that do not touch the same vertex twice? This problem has defied solution, except for small values of n, though a large amount of numerical data has been amassed.


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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Applying Reasoning and Proof
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In the previous sections, you studied the aspects of reasoning and proof in a problem-solving context; looked at ways to encourage students to develop their ability to make conjectures and to prove and extend their ideas; and considered the aspects of reasoning and proof in a middle-grades classroom.
Now that you are familiar with the standard and some of its aspects, you will have a chance to see how one teacher applies it. Middle school teacher Hilory Paster wants to evaluate how well students in her fifth-grade math class understand fractions.
How does reasoning and proof fit into this picture? First, consider a problem similar to the one Ms. Paster sets for her students.
As you saw in Part A of Session 2: Communication, Ms. Paster introduced her class to the Fraction Tracks game. In addition to this linear model for working with fractions, some students might use hands-on materials to help them with the game. There are many manipulative materials for fractions. We will show the Fraction Factory Pieces here, which are based on an area model for fractions. Students can use the pieces to help them decide which moves would add to the number they draw, or they can use the pieces to "prove" that their choices are correct.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...If you like a little heat with your meat, this dish will please on many levels. It is inexpensive and easy to make, but more to the point, it is absolutely delicious. While this Thai-style curry is best made with the hot and flavorful Madras curry powder, don't let the lack of it keep you from trying the dish with a less potent variety. As is the case with most rice and stir-fry combos, make sure your rice is ready to serve before you start to assemble the curry. It is way too easy to over cook the chicken in this dish, so get it from the wok to the table as soon as it is done. The sauce for this curry is rather thin, so if you'd like it to have more substance, mix a teaspoon of cornstarch with a teaspoon or two of water and add it to the wok at the very end of cooking. While it lacks eye appeal, this is a terrific dish for an adult week night meal. Unfortunately, most children won't go near it, so I can't recommend it for a family dinner if your children are under the age of twelve. I do hope the rest of you will try this curry. You will not be disappointed. Here is how it is made.
Curried Chicken and Cashews...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Cooking Light magazine
1/3 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
3 tablespoons water
1-1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
Remaining ingredients
3/4 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
2 tablespoons canola oil, divided
1 1/2 cups vertically sliced onion
1 tablespoon minced peeled fresh ginger
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon Madras curry powder
3 small dried hot red chiles, broken in half
1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/4 cup dry-roasted salted cashews, chopped
3 cups hot cooked short-grain rice
1) To prepare sauce, combine chicken broth, water, fish sauce, sugar and rice vinegar in a small bowl. Set aside.
2) Cut chicken across grain into 1/4-inch slices; cut slices into 1/2-inch-wide strips. Cut strips into 3-inch-long pieces.
3) Heat a large wok or skillet over high heat. Add 1 tablespoon oil to wok, swirling to coat. Add half of chicken to wok; stir-fry 2 minutes. Spoon cooked chicken into a bowl. Repeat procedure with 2 teaspoons oil and remaining chicken.
4) Add remaining 1 teaspoon oil to wok, swirling to coat. Add onion, ginger, and garlic to wok; stir-fry 1 minute or until lightly browned. Add curry powder and chiles; stir-fry 30 seconds. Add sauce and chicken to wok; stir-fry 1 minute. Spoon into a serving dish. Sprinkle with cilantro and cashews. Serve over rice. Yield: 4 servings.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA has signed an agreement with a California-based startup to develop and market a nasal spray for motion sickness, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.
NASA will work with privately owned Epiomed Therapeutics of Irvine, California, on the nasal spray, which has been shown to be a fast-acting treatment for motion sickness.
About half the astronauts who fly in space develop space motion sickness, with symptoms that anyone nauseated or light-headed from more terrestrial forms of travel will recognize.
NASA has been working on giving astronauts an edge: a fast-acting medicine called intranasal scopolamine, or INSCOP. The drug also can be administered as a tablet, via a transdermal patch or injected, but a nasal spray can work faster and more reliably, NASA said.
"NASA and Epiomed will work closely together on further development of INSCOP to optimize therapeutic efficiency for both acute and chronic treatment of motion sickness," NASA researcher Lakshmi Putcha, with the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in a statement.
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By Jennifer Stewart-BurtonSeptember 6, 2012
Indiana's farmland values and cash rents have continued to soar in 2012, even amid the worst drought in decades, according to a June 2012 Purdue University survey.
The Purdue Farmland Value Survey showed a statewide increase in farmland value ranging from 14.3 percent to 18.1 percent, depending on land quality, since the 2011 survey. Cash rents increased between 12.8 percent and 15.2 percent.
"Robust net farm incomes, favorable interest rates, strong farmland demand and a limited supply of farmland for sale kept Indiana farmland values and cash rents moving higher," said Craig Dobbins, Purdue Extension agricultural economist.
Statewide the average value of bare Indiana cropland ranged from $5,013 per acre for poor-quality land to $7,704 per acre for top-quality land.
To assess farmland productivity, survey respondents estimated long-term corn yields for poor-, average- and top-quality land. For the state, the average long-term corn yields for poor, average and top were 126, 159 and 192 bushels per acre, respectively.
The farmland value increases are good news for landowners, but not necessarily for some prospective buyers, Dobbins said.
"For the landowners, the increase is generally a good thing," he said. "It makes the asset that much more valuable and if they are thinking about selling it, they can sell it for a good price.
"If you're someone who is trying to start out or get into farming, this news isn't all that good. It just makes it more difficult to make a farmland purchase.
According to Dobbins, 2012 was the year many thought crop production margins and thus farmland values would level out or even fall. But the season-long drought hiked grain prices and the prospects of higher 2013 and maybe 2014 grain prices led to higher farmland values.
Values of farmland moving out of agriculture, called transitional land, also are on the rise after a four-year decline. The 2012 average value was $8,505, up 7.2 percent from 2011.
"This is a specialized market with the transitional land value strongly influenced by the planned use and location," Dobbins said. "The estimated value of farmland in this market has a very wide range."
For example, transitional land value estimates in the June survey ranged from $2,500 per acre to $21,000.
Because of those variations, Dobbins said the median transitional land value of $8,000 per acre is likely more meaningful than the average. That number represents an increase in value of $750 per acre.
The survey also looked at the value of rural recreational land, which includes land used for hunting and other recreational activities. The average value of an acre of recreational land was $3,489, an increase of 3.9 percent from 2011. The median value in June 2012 was $3,000 per acre - the same as last year.
"As with transitional land, there is a wide range of values for rural recreational land, again making the median value a more meaningful indicator than arithmetic average," Dobbins said.
This year's survey includes responses from 276 farm managers, appraisers, land brokers, agricultural loan officers, Purdue Extension educators, farmers and professionals representing the Farm Credit System, the Farm Service Agency county offices and insurance companies. Respondents represented six Indiana regions and all but four Indiana counties.
A full assessment of the survey results and more information about respondents and data gathering methods are available in the August 2012 edition of the Purdue Agricultural Economics Report (PDF: 2.2 MB).
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BRISTOL — A long-time favorite of Boy Scouts around the county coasted into Bristol on Saturday. Members of Bristol Cub Scout Pack 543 hosted their first-ever Soapbox Derby.
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Wayland senior directing Civic Theatre holiday production
April Langehennig, a senior theatre major at Wayland Baptist University, will direct the Plainview Civic Theatre's presentation of a holiday favorite Dec. 6-8.
The production is the original Lux Radio Show presentation of It's a Wonderful Life and will be performed in the Harral Studio Theatre on the Wayland campus at 8 p.m. each night.
According to PCT president Tisa Whitfill, the production is a deviation from the group's normal straight play format. But the radio play fit perfectly for the season.
"We were planning to do this next year, and I saw it on PBS one night," Whitfill said. "It's a great piece that I knew we could put together quickly, especially with everyone's busy schedules."
Finding no scripts available for the show, Whitfill and Langehennig ended up transcribing the PBS production to create scripts for the cast. With simple set and no costumes, the play relies heavily on vocal talent and a little imagination from the audience.
"You almost want to close your eyes and just listen. I think the audiences will enjoy it!" Whitfill said.
Whitfill and Jill Craig will be providing full Foley sound effects from the stage, much like the actual radio productions were performed in decades past. A set of stage stairs provides a climbing effect, while a miniature door slams shut for effect. Whitfill said she'll also be providing some background music on her keyboard.
The cast blends Wayland students with community members and has some members bending themselves into several roles. Plainviewan James Ridener plays George Bailey, while Wayland senior Mary Loudat of Albuquerque, NM, plays his wife Mary. Gene Whitfill of Plainview plays Clarence the Angel. Completing the cast in various roles are Langehennig, Kayla Craig, David Howle, Bailey Miller, Michael Ridener, Lori Stanley, Chris Stegall and Brett Wesley.
Tickets for It's a Wonderful Life are $8 for adults and $5 for students college-age and under. Reservations are encouraged by calling the Wayland box office at 291-1089


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Multiply Kilowatts times time to get Kilowatt-hours.
Multiply this time $0.0899 to get an approximate cost. Since there are losses in the system this number should be increased by 10-25%. Maybe someone else has a better understanding of the losses.
You're going to fill up for 10 bucks and get change back.
The think that you forgot is to multiply by the kwh you draw. A 40 amp circuit at 240 volts is 9600 watts, or 9.6 kw. Run for an hour, it's 9.6 kwh. So if you take your math above and multiply it by 9.6, you'll be closer. You could also work it out based on your battery pack. Remember, your pack will never be completely empty or full, and you have some charging losses.
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Here in Seattle City Light territory, a kwh costs 5 cents for business accounts, so $4.30 for a 300 mile fill compared to $75 at the gas pump.
It is also sourced 98% from hydro, wind, and solar. The 2% fossil fuel component is likely coming from natural gas during peak demand hours, not nighttime charging hours, so it's as close as you are likely to get to avoiding fossil fuels for filling up.
Of course, you will need to move to Seattle or Switzerland (the other 98% place).
My measurements shows about 86% of the electricity that passes through the breaker box ends up in the battery (YMMV, and it does vary a bit depending on the charge level and charging speed), so a 0-100% charge would be 85kWh / .86 = 98.8kWh * $.0899/kWh = $8.89.
In addition, there will be some losses from running the computers in the car, which are about 150W, or about 3.6kWh/day costing you another $.32.
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