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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (127908)11/9/2000 10:42:16 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (3) of 1570748
 
Joe,

I'm not certain how to calculate the odds, but I'm quite certain that the odds are astronomical. I wrote a brute force program to do the calculation, but it can't practically run past 2^24.

16 coin tosses have about 1 chance in 30 of getting a 75%/25% split. 24 coin tosses have about 1 chance in 100 of getting a 75%/25% split, and the odds get much, much worse as the number of tosses increases towards 2,000.

Scumbria
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