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Subject: Re: Question fro you math wizards

Author: Jari Huikari

Date: 13:11:22 02/08/00

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On February 08, 2000 at 10:57:44, Andrew Dados wrote:

>Below are string lengths for 0.95 chance of finding at least one match for
>substring lengths 1-10: (above formula run in Mathematica):
>
>28.4332
>299.073
>2996.23
>29958.8
>299576.
>2.99574 10^6
>2.99573 10^7
>2.99573 10^8
>2.99573 10^9
>2.99573 10^10
>
>Looks like 3*10^n is a good approximation of our formula.

Yes. I found the first two without coffee. :-)

					Jari



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