Article: Quantitative aspects of five-pin bowling.

1. INTRODUCTION

The sport of five-pin bowling was invented in Canada by Thomas F. Ryan in either 1908 or 1909 and is Canada's number-one participant sport: it is enjoyed by more than 2 million Canadians in more than 700 bowling centers (see Hong 1988). It is also played in some parts of the United States, where the sport of ten-pin bowling is by far the more popular game. Despite this popularity, nothing of a quantitative nature has ever been published on the subject.

This article investigates the statistical distribution of five-pin bowling scores by analyzing 2,100 scores taken from a league of adult bowlers. The logarithms of these bowling scores are shown to ...

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