Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:36:14 07/15/00
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On July 15, 2000 at 19:23:33, pete wrote: >>Did you know that if I flip a perfectly fair coin 100 times, the probability of >>100 tails in a row is exactly the same as the other 2^101 -1 possible outcomes? > >No , I really didn't know that :-) Yes. It is exactly 1/(2^101-1). >Are you sure you chose the right model when doing your calculations ? Positive. > >Sure some certain outcome like 99 tails and the other one ( I don't remember the >name of at the moment ) arriving at 43rd throw are equal to 100 tails but this >is not exactly the question here , is it ? It's exactly the same, only completely different. >pete ( the remembering his maths studies sometimes .. )
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