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How often should you beat your kids?

The Mathematical Association of America published a paper in 1990 using math to prove that you should beat your kids every day except Sunday.

Apparent this is an exercise in probability, generating functions, Stirling’s formula, the Gaussian integral, and more.

http://people.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/zagier/files/math-mag/63-2/fulltext.pdf

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