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Re:Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN by PartiallyTyped on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:33AM (#26620127)
I would like to point you towards Hoeffding's inequality. The probability of deviating more than epsilon from the mean after n experiments is exponential in n.
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Re:Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN by leereeves on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:16AM (#26620452)
I think you're talking about different things.

For a fixed range, the probability of being outside that range decays like 1/k^n.

But for a fixed probability, the width of the range with that probability decays like 1/sqrt(n).

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