will_you_be_alive

will_you_be_alive, a Python code which uses simulation to investigate problems in probability, from Paul Nahin's book "Will You Be Alive 10 Years From Now?".

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

will_you_be_alive is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

digital_dice, a Python code which contains the scripts used to illustrate Paul Nahin's "Digital Dice".

dueling_idiots, a Python code which contains the scripts used to illustrate Paul Nahin's "Dueling Idiots".

mortality, a dataset directory which lists mortality information for a single year, the age at death, number of deaths, male deaths and females deaths, for a total of 2,423,509 deaths, including 1,203,812 males and 1,219,697 females, between the ages of 0 and 114.

Reference

• Paul Nahin,
  Will You Be Alive 10 Years From Now?,
  Princeton, 2014,
  ISBN: 978-0691156804,
  LC: QA273.25.N344

Source Code:

• will_you_be_alive.py, the source code;
• will_you_be_alive.sh, runs all the tests;
• will_you_be_alive.txt, the output file.