Should also look at probability of tossing or flipping coins, as that's more like what is happening.
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What you've got there is a percentage, like the chance of flipping a coin and getting a head is 0.5
What Threaded is suggesting is taking the reciprocal, ie. 1/your answer. In the coin example that gives you 2, so it means you have a 1 in 2 chance.
In your case you end up with 1 in 6.965 x 10^66.
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I'd be careful about tapping people on the shoulder, calling them john, and chancing a pick at their ball bags."Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Originally posted by Bunk View PostIn your case you end up with 1 in 6.965 x 10^66.The proud owner of 125 Xeno Geek PointsComment
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Originally posted by Ruprect View PostI'd be careful about tapping people on the shoulder, calling them john, and chancing a pick at their ball bags.
Good signature btw :-)Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by chef View Postwhich in lay terms is 1 in a billion billion billion or more billions required?Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by Board Game Geek View PostLOL !
Good signature btw :-)"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "
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Thanks Bunk !Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Originally posted by Bunk View PostWhat you've got there is a percentage, like the chance of flipping a coin and getting a head is 0.5
What Threaded is suggesting is taking the reciprocal, ie. 1/your answer. In the coin example that gives you 2, so it means you have a 1 in 2 chance.
In your case you end up with 1 in 6.965 x 10^66.
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10 x 6.965 = 69.65, turn the . in to a , then add 66 zeroes to the end, right ?
I hated maths at school. Literature was my thing, sorry.Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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erm from what I think I've found out
1 and then 66 zero's
1 billion is 1 then 9 zero's
so it would be 10 <seven billions> or there abouts
i.e
around 10 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion to 1
or
10 trillion trillion trillion trillion to 1 chance
correct?The proud owner of 125 Xeno Geek PointsComment
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