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Allen's Ambivalent Approximation (Posted on 2007-01-11)

Woody Allen once said "Being bisexual doubles your chance of a date on Saturday night."

But that's obviously/logically false! What should he have said?

See The Solution Submitted by Old Original Oskar!

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If your probability of getting a date is P, a bisexual would have 1-(1-P)^2 probability of getting a date, or 2P-P^2.

Edited on March 7, 2023, 12:09 am

Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-03-06 23:46:44

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