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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: jcholewa who wrote (128103)11/10/2000 5:35:33 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) of 1581698
 
<The chances of getting 1000 or more heads on 2000 flips is 100%? That doesn't sound right. -JC>

Sorry, I was not accurate. To my rusty recollection,
the above probability should look like
P = 1 - 0.5/Sqrt(2000),
which is about 98.5%. Or something like that.

Regards,
- Ali
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