Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 19:47:37 03/18/99
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On March 18, 1999 at 22:27:01, James Robertson wrote: >On March 18, 1999 at 13:43:07, Peter Kappler wrote: <snip> >>A 150-point rating differential translates to a 30% win probability for the >>lower rated player. The likelihood of you winning 30 or 40 games in a row in >>this scenario is essentially zero. > >I would be willing to wager no one in this forum has a calculator that can >calculate 0.70 ^ 30 or 0.70 ^ 40. :) Nah.. Windows Calculator can even do this stuff. :) 0.7 ^ 30 = 0.000022539340290692258087863249 0.7 ^ 40 = 0.0000006366805760909027985741435139224 Indeed, those are very small probabilities. Jeremiah
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