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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by a1369209993 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @03:49PM (#19767295)
Are the two of you using the same answer to the question "Does a X% chance of 2 events (in given interval) contribute X% or 2X% to the chance of seeing one event?"? That is, do you mean [time for a 50% chance of seeing ≥1 decay] or [time to see, on average, 0.5 decays].
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Re:Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Kno... by contravariant on Saturday April 27, 2019 @06:01PM (#19767891)
In my case I'm talking about the (average) time until the first decay.
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