----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Cramer" <cramer at unix01.voicenet.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:36 PM Subject: RE: Civil Liberties
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
>
> > Yep. However, your're more likely to get heads once by flipping
the coin
> > multiple times. This has nothing to do with the (non)influece of
past
> > events on future events. Your chance of not getting heads at
least once in
> > five tries (or, in other words, getting tails five consecutive
times) is
> > 1/64.
>
> *smacks self in head*
>
> Yep, you're right. Since probabilities must equal 1, the
probability of
> getting outcome A in n tries is equal to 1 - probability of n
> consecutive !A outcomes.
>
>
> Matt
>
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Good thing the origin of space-time didn't follow that logic.....
Ian....channeling Leibniz.......