{"id":6615,"date":"2011-05-18T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/how-many-drake-2-bs-the-german-tank-problem\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T12:41:00","slug":"how-many-drake-2-bs-the-german-tank-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/how-many-drake-2-bs-the-german-tank-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"How many Drake 2-Bs?  The German Tank Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >I have #11,976!<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Hi Bill,<\/p>\n<p>I was just listening to your latest soldersmoke podcast and your<br \/>discussion about how many Drake 2Bs were made. Without knowing the<br \/>exact serial number for the last Drake 2B before the Drake 2C was<br \/>made, you can estimate what that number might have been by knowing a<br \/>few of the real serial numbers that are being used by people today.<br \/>This is a <\/span><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1305758283_0\" style=\"font-size:100%;\">mathematical problem<\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"> related to the somewhat famous &#8220;German<br \/>Tank&#8221; problem. Check out:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_tank_problem\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1305758283_1\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_tank_problem<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you were to ask your listeners to report to you their Drake 2B<br \/>serial numbers you could estimate the largest serial number there ever<br \/>was from the formula on that wiki page. This could be a fun exercise<br \/>\ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve never had a Drake 2B so I can&#8217;t contribute. But I could do the<br \/>estimate for you if you gave me the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers and 73<\/p>\n<p>Scott (K6AUS)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have #11,976!&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-Hi Bill, I was just listening to your latest soldersmoke podcast and yourdiscussion about how many Drake 2Bs were made. Without knowing theexact serial number for the last Drake 2B before the Drake 2C wasmade, you can estimate what that number might have been by knowing afew of the real serial numbers that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/18\/how-many-drake-2-bs-the-german-tank-problem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How many Drake 2-Bs?  The German Tank Problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drake-2b","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}