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Anonymous Sun 16 May 17:38:33 2021 No.13141114 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13141397 >>13141713 >>13141870 >>13143669

I just got quads while replying to triples
>>13141111
Can /math/ compute the astounding long odds of such a rare coincidence?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 May 2021 18:30:49 No.13141397 Report

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>>13141114
HOLY SHIT I JUST GOT DUBS REPLYING TO YOUR QUADS

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 May 2021 19:33:23 No.13141713 Report

Quoted By: >>13141780 >>13143479

>>13141114
>chance of trips 1/100
>chance of quads 1/1000
>chance of both happening in that order 1/(100*1000)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 May 2021 19:49:58 No.13141780 Report

Quoted By: >>13141807 >>13143609

>>13141713
wrong retard

the real answer is that there are two options: this can happen or it cannot happen. since there are two options, it's 50/50, or 50% likely

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 May 2021 19:53:55 No.13141802 Report

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Jannies hate these threads

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 May 2021 19:54:58 No.13141807 Report

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>>13141780
This is correct

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 16 May 2021 20:07:34 No.13141870 Report

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>>13141114
100% because it happened

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 May 2021 02:46:15 No.13143479 Report

Quoted By: >>13143674

>>13141713
i wonder what the most mathematically unlikely combination of trailing integers on consecutive posts is

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 May 2021 03:24:47 No.13143609 Report

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>>13141780
woah...

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 May 2021 03:44:30 No.13143669 Report

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>>13141114
The probability of getting quads and replying to trips is 1 in 100,000
The probability that you got quads given that you are replying to trips 1 in 1,000

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 17 May 2021 03:45:32 No.13143674 Report

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>>13143479
They're all the same for a given length of integers

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