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Subject: Re: How many games are needed to find out which program is stronger?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 00:22:54 09/03/99

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On September 02, 1999 at 20:31:41, Dann Corbit wrote:

>An interesting thing about probability is that you might get 1000 heads in a row
>with a perfectly fair coin.  In fact, that sequence is exactly as likely as any
>other run of 1000 trials (being 1/2^1000).
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Would you predict the same in human games as compared to what you are saying
about computers?

Terry



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