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Subject: Re: Question fro you math wizards

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 05:23:33 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 08:05:40, Les Fernandez wrote:

>Does anyone know given a string of "x" numbers (ie 237496) how large must a
>string of random numbers be so that you can have a 95% chance of finding that
>exact string within the larger string of numbers.  If there is a way that I can
>calculate it please provide info.  Keep in mind although the above example
>contains 6 numbers it is used only for an example so that I may understand the
>concept.  I am interested in being able to calculate how long the length of the
>longer string needs to be for numbers up to about 60 in length if this is
>possible. Thanks

Have you tried to solve this by writing a program trying different strings
and counting matches? Or do you need exact probabilities? Where are you
going to use this?

					Jari



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