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Subject: Re: OT / Re: Upon scientific truth - the nature of information

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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