On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 2:26:02 PM UTC-4, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn > > <pointede...@web.de> wrote: > >>> The greater the multiplier, the lower the chance that any element will > >>> have no hits. > >> Wrong. > >> > >>> [ex falso quodlibet] > > > > Huh. Do you want to explain how, mathematically, I am wrong, or do you > > want to join the RUE in my ignore list? > > I already did; you have overlooked it. In a nutshell, the probability of > > 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > > is *the same* as that of > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 > > and the same as that of > > 8 3 6 3 1 2 6 8 2 1 6. >
You aren't agreeing because you are arguing about different things. Thomas is talking about the relative probability of sequences of digits. Chris is talking about the probability of a single digit never appearing in the output. Thomas: let's say I generate streams of N digits drawn randomly from 0-9. I then consider the probability of a zero *never appearing once* in my stream. Let's call that P(N). Do you agree that as N increases, P(N) decreases? --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
