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Old 06-20-2005, 03:22 PM
Dov Dov is offline
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Default Re: Unbelievable odds. Trillion to one?

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Sorry to correct, but its only 1 in 44,141 (if your numbers is correct) as the first event is a given event.

Thus its the probability of event occuring, given a particular event has already occured.

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The question is about consecutive events.

The second cannot happen without the first.
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