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pbray ([personal profile] pbray) wrote2006-04-13 01:51 pm

Snakes on a math problem

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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[personal profile] larryhammer 2006-04-13 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
*g*

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.