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Re:Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets by hannibal5 on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:38AM (#6300431)
btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%

If you try things that have 0.1% change one after another, the change of succeeding has binomial distribution. The probability that you get at least one success is just 63%

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Re:Things I know that it seems like nobody else gets by molecule on Friday August 30, 2013 @01:55AM (#6300454)
> btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%

it was originally posted as 0.01%.

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