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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: jcholewa who wrote (128011)11/10/2000 2:35:35 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) of 1582941
 
JC, <The chances of flipping 1500 heads where all other flips can be... Apologies if I misdid the math. I think I have it more or less correct. :)>

Apology accepted. :) :) If you slightly
change the initial condition to 1000 heads (which
apparently does not change the reasoning behind
your formula), you will still get the miserable
probability of (1/2)^1000=10^(-300), while in
reality the result is 1.

Regards,
- Ali
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