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We get a list of all the fractions, which means we've created a one-to-one
match
between the whole numbers and the fractions, despite the fact that we thought maybe there ought to be more fractions.
So, can we make a one-to-one
match
between the whole numbers and the set of all the decimals, both the rationals and the irrationals?
But if the words and the actions don't match, an adverb can be helpful.
The first thing we needed to
match
people up was data, something for the algorithm to work with.
For example, two people who are both into scary movies are probably a better
match
than one person who is and one who isn't.
As a practical example, let's look at how we'd
match
you with another person.
Your
match
percentage with B is based on questions you've both answered.
As a very simple example, we use a small set "s" with just two questions in common, and compute a
match
from that.
The final step is to take these two
match
percentages and get one number for the both of you.
Because s, which is the number of questions in this sample, is only 2, we have:
match
percentage equals the square root of 98 percent times 91 percent.
That 94 percent is your
match
percentage with B. It's a mathematical expression of how happy you'd be with each other, based on what we know.
Now, why does the algorithm multiply, as opposed to, say, average the two
match
scores together, and do the square-root business?
Two people satisfying each other 50 percent should be a better
match
than two others who satisfy 0 and 100, because affection needs to be mutual.
As long as you're careful to
match
up your dimensions right, though, it's pretty easy.
It's a bit of a cliché, but nothing man-made can ever
match
the imagination of nature.
No Quidditch
match
ends until the Golden Snitch is caught.
When this
match
is made, the photon disappers as the molecule gains its energy, and we get a small gap in our rainbow.
Just as oxygen gas prefers the dark red photons, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
match
with infrared photons.
We are taught to become leaders of today, something a normal textbook cannot
match.
But you see at the end, we have a very close match, and we were very, very happy with this.
So, you and the lab assistant quickly run across with the lantern, though you have to slow down a bit to
match
her pace.
If what they count doesn't match, that means their own hat is that color.
While each human tooth is coated in a hardy, protective layer of enamel, it's no
match
for acid.
Imagine, for a second, a duck teaching a French class, a ping-pong
match
in orbit around a black hole, a dolphin balancing a pineapple.
And we'll
match
you up with one of your neighbors on your way to work and it's a really great thing.
The economist Alvin Roth has developed the idea of matching markets, ways in which the preference ranking of the parties shapes an eventual
match.
My colleagues Will Jones and Alex Teytelboym have explored ways in which that idea could be applied to refugees, to ask refugees to rank their preferred destinations, but also allow states to rank the types of refugees they want on skills criteria or language criteria and allow those to
match.
The matching idea has been successfully used to match, for instance, students with university places, to
match
kidney donors with patients, and it underlies the kind of algorithms that exist on dating websites.
It turns out that different species have slightly different structures of collagen, so if you get a collagen profile of an unknown bone, you can compare it to those of known species, and, who knows, maybe you get a
match.
And he found a
match.
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