 | | Re: math question (or pattern... whatever...) —David Eaton
| | | | (...) I don't quite get why this works-- if you're doing rand($#bag), won't that always pick r, r, or w for the 1st value? Hence, theoretically, you could pick "wb", which isn't in your sample set... on the other hand, you're increasing the chance (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: math question (or pattern... whatever...) —Dan Boger
| | | | | (...) doh, you're right :) Also, I was calculating the chance of getting 2 red marbles, in general, not checking the chance given the first one was red... :) That's what you get when you do an experiment, and have an expected solution in your (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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