random...@fastmail.us wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015, at 15:29, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: >> Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn writes: >> >> 8 3 6 3 1 2 6 8 2 1 6. >> > >> > There are more than four hundred thousand ways to get those numbers in >> > some order. >> > >> > (11! / 2! / 2! / 2! / 3! / 2! = 415800) >> Fallacy. Order is irrelevant here. > > Huh? The fact that order is irrelevant is exactly _why_ what he said > _is_ relevant.
No. AISB, those sequences all have the same probability: <http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/probability/numbersense/misconceptions/representativeness.html> <http://www.teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/probability/numbersense/misconceptions/recency.html> -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
