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?
So far others have tried the 1/e solution, but how about this one.
10 to the -21st power is a very tiny number (a 1 with 20 zeros in front of it).. 1 - a very tiny number is very close to 1, but less then 1.
(.999999999999999999999)^(1^26)
1^(1^26) would still be one, but just a little less then 1 would cause the number to decrease, so the end result is something like
(.999999999999999999999)^(1^26)=
0.999999996003097
Seems like a pretty sure thing.
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Posted by C
on 2006-08-09 15:09:40 |