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Old 10-02-2005, 09:09 PM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: Futurama Question

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Vaguely worded question, so I'll just answer this: After how many seconds do we expect him to have only a 50/50 chance of not having blown up?

(198/199)^N = 0.5

Then round up to the nearest second, I come up with 138 seconds, which is exactly what LetYouDown came up with, so I guess that's confirmation.

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That's the answer to the second question I asked, but note that this is different from the question the OP asked. He is asking for the mean, while I was asking for the median.
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