Author: Danniel Corbit
Date: 08:36:42 08/09/98
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On August 09, 1998 at 11:12:01, blass uri wrote: [snip] >It depends on the result >If the result is 10:0 after 10 games it is significant result. >The best test is not to decide about the number of games before the test >but to define the possible significant results and to stop playing when you have >significant result(of course you have to decide about the maximal number of >games before the test). It is more likely to be significant if it is ten-zero, but not for sure. You might flip a penny. If 1024 people flipped a penny ten times, chances are one of them would get ten heads in a row. Also, one of them would get ten tails in a row. It is even conceivable [though only mathematically] that all 1024 people would get all heads on all ten tries. [odds are 1 in 2^10240 = 3.525e3082] Do you imagine that it is impossible for you to get a 10-0 result and your neighbor to get an 0-10 result matching two computer programs against each other on similar hardware? Again, very unlikely but possible. Figures don't lie, but liars will figure, so they say. Wait a minute... I was just figuring!! Go figure.
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