![]() ![]() ![]() But, what if it's too late and your phone has gone missing before you've installed the app? Good news: there is another way. now she has 23 marbles.There are many anti-theft or phone recovery apps available on the Google Play Store, which can be very helpful in case you lose your phone or if it gets stolen. That would account for the 1898 example and it’s hardly a step from there to the wider meaning of mad — to do something senseless or stupid. To play was always to run the risk of losing all one’s marbles and the result might easily be anger, frustration, and despair. It was printed in the Lima News of Ohio in July 1898: “He picked up the Right Honorable Mr Hughes on a technicality, and although that gentleman is reverential in appearance as Father Abraham and as patient as Job, he had, to use an expression of the street, lost his ‘marbles’ most beautifully and stomped on the irascible Harmon, very much à la Bull in the china shop.†The origin must surely come from the boys’ game of marbles, which was very common at the time. But in an earlier appearance, the writer used it to mean angry, not insane (mad, that is, in the common US sense rather than the British one). and the smoke-holder like a man who is shy some of his marbles.†That certainly sounds like the modern meaning of marbles, which as you say refers to one’s sanity. The earliest example given in the standard references is from It’s Up to You A Story of Domestic Bliss, by George V Hobart, dated 1902: “I see-sawed back and forth between Clara J. It is, as it happens, pretty much contemporary with the play. To lose one’s marbles is equally American and the same comment applies. Might you have been confused by Hook, the film that was made from it in 1991? That includes the exchange: Peter: Ha ha ha! He really did lose his marbles, didn’t he? Tub: Yeah, he lost them good! which clangs discordantly on my British ear, since lost them good is an Americanism, not natively known this side of the big water, and therefore an expression that the Scottish Barrie could not have used. Is this the origin?†There’s no mention of marbles in J M Barrie’s original 1904 play, Peter Pan. Q] From Mike Pataky: “Can you tell me the origin of the expression, He has lost his marbles, meaning gone mad or lost his reason or done something really stupid? Being a Londoner myself, I suspected it might be a Cockney expression but I recently heard it in Peter Pan where the uncle (who is not quite ‘compos mentis’) is said to have found his lost marbles. Here is the best answer I have found along with a nicely worded question on WORLD WIDE WORDS web site. Where does the phrase "Losing his marbles" come from?.0002359, therefore all we must now do is multiply the probability above by the number of arrangements. ALL of these arrangements will have the same probability of occurring = 0. For instance you could get RRBBRRBBRRRB or BBBBBRRRRRRR or any other arrangement. Therefore the probability of the second being red given the first is red = 40/59 The third red = 39/58 The 4th red = 38/57 The 5th red = 37/56 the 6th red = 36 /55 the 7th red = 35 /54 The 8th blue = 19/53 (there are 19 blue in the bag) The 9th blue = 18/52 The 10th blue = 17/51 The 11th blue = 16/50 The 12th blue = 15/49 Therefore the probability of RRRRRRRBBBBB = all these individual probabilities multiplied together = (41 * 40 * 39 * 38 * 37 * 36 * 35 * 19 * 18 * 17 * 16 * 15) / (60 * 59 * 58 * 57 * 56 * 55 * 54 * 53 * 52 * 51 * 50 * 49) (If I have input it into my calculator correctly this equals 0.0002359 to seven decimal places) NOW you have to realise that there are more than one way to get 7 red and 5 blue. Lets first work out the probability of RRRRRRRBBBBB The First being a red = 41/60 There now remain 59 marbles in the bag and 40 are red. Firstly working out the probability of a typical string of 7 red and 5 blue and then secondly the number of ARRANGEMENTS there are of 7 red and 5 blue. I am going to assume the marbles are not replaced. There are 60 total marbles -There are 41 red marbles. If 12 marbles from 60 are chosen at random what is the probability of selecting exactly 7 red marbles. ![]()
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