It's a funny old world. If you'd asked me this morning if I understood Venn diagrams, my answer would have been a resounding” “Yes!” Quite apart from anything else, some time ago I penned a rather ...

British mathematician John Venn (pictured above, click to enlarge) was born on August 4, 1834, so last Thursday marked the 188th anniversary of his birth in Hull, England. John Venn is most known for ...

Venn diagrams are used to sort sets of data. The probability of an event not happening uses the complement of the region on the Venn diagram. Count the number of elements in each region. Redraw the ...

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