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To: Scumbria who wrote (128018)11/10/2000 1:23:39 PM
From: jcholewa  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570939
 
> Thanks for the math lesson. It makes sense to me.

Welcome. BTW, the chances of getting exactly five hundred tails (no more and no less) out of two thousand is one in 2^2000. ;)

    -JC



To: Scumbria who wrote (128018)11/10/2000 2:14:52 PM
From: bacchus_ii  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570939
 
JC,

Thanks for the math lesson. It makes sense to me.

Scumbria



ya, great simplification by JC (getting at least 1500 heads (in no particular order).)

But now, for Scumbria, maybe probability could be bring down to .5 if we have to bet that bias in counting was made during initial counting instead of during recounting ... :-)

Gottfried


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