In a magazine recently there was a discussion about probability.

The author asserted that the probability of the event in question was approximately

(1 - 10^-21)¹⁰²⁵

How small is this number?

I think that (1 - 10^-21)¹⁰²¹ = (1/e)

so I am thinking that this is the same as (1/e))^(10^25/21) =
(1/e)^(10^1.19) =
(1/e)^15.50515  =
approx .00000018

Posted by Steve Herman on 2006-08-09 12:37:20