Snakes on a math problem
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There are n Snakes on the Plane. There are k Passengers on the Plane. Each Snake will Bite One Passenger at Random. What is the Probability that The Target, Mr. X, does not get bit?
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Date: 2006-04-13 06:25 pm (UTC)Mr.X doesn't get bitten at all 'cause he missed the flight after I told him that I had a vivid premonition that his life would be in danger if took that flight. He listened and took a later flight.
(And because I can't do algebra worth beans). :-)
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Date: 2006-04-13 06:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 06:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 07:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 07:44 pm (UTC)Though there is a story in those genetically engineered SmartSnakes...I just know there is.
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Date: 2006-04-13 08:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 08:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 10:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 08:33 pm (UTC)Well, sorta scores. I did the right math then flubbed the arithmatic. Which is, yanno, the math major's way.
I love prob/stats. The universe runs on combinatorics.
---L.
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Date: 2006-04-13 09:00 pm (UTC)It's interesting to me how many writers I know turn out to have been math majors.
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Date: 2006-04-13 09:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-04-13 10:40 pm (UTC)I was actually a math+physics double major, and got my masters in physics -- with a minor in numerical methods. So, I was a computational physics person.
---L.
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Date: 2006-04-13 10:54 pm (UTC)