another question for math guys

[joel2006]

Is there any way to compute the odds that four consecutive sentences in a paragraph would end in four specific words (for example the words ' i', 'love', 'hot', and 'pizza')

[Eihli]

Without knowing what the paragraph is about?

[sam h]

Well, you would first have to decide which words were in the universe of possibility. You could take the rest of your life to count all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary, making sure to include variations in tense and person, and then exclude those words that could not end a sentence like "the" and raise that number to the 4th.

Unless you're reading Finnegan's Wake, in which case "the" might be valid.

[andyfox]

I can end a sentence with the word "the."

[bigpooch]

Depending on the author, the probability is either 0 or 1.