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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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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).