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Halloween by the Numbers: From Trick-or-Treat Optimization to Zombie Doomsdays
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A Halloween math tour—from optimizing trick-or-treat routes and predicting candy haul to the cognitive biases that inflate fear and the doomsday forecasts of zombie epidemics. We link suspense in film to real-world risk, show how simple counting underpins sharing candy, and explain why fast, decisive action often wins in these dynamic systems.
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