Author: blass uri
Date: 06:01:43 09/03/99
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On September 03, 1999 at 03:59:21, Harald Faber wrote: >On September 02, 1999 at 20:31:41, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>An interesting thing about probability is that you might get 1000 heads in a row >>with a perfectly fair coin. In fact, that sequence is exactly as likely as any >>other run of 1000 trials (being 1/2^1000). > >I thought it is different. >Take 2 cubes. Throw them. The probabilities are only equal for most combinations >but not for the sum both cubes show. The 1/2^1000 is not about the sum but about sequences For example HHHHHH and HHTTTH have the same probability but it does not say that 6 H's have the same probabilty as 3 H's because there are many sequences of length 6 with 3 H's and only one with 6H's Uri
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