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OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:38 pm
by L M S
What are the odds of this happening?
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Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:42 pm
by jefjef
CC odds. About 5 to 1.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:42 pm
by jigger1986
My calculations put it at about 0.000125 %
(1/Nu)*3
Nu-Number of territories (19)
I could be wrong though, Im not a huge stats guy, its just what I think.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:45 pm
by Commander9
jigger1986 wrote:My calculations put it at about 0.000125 %
(1/Nu)*3
Nu-Number of territories (19)
I could be wrong though, Im not a huge stats guy, its just what I think.
But your calculations are based on that he had a 3 card setter, but you would also have to include the odds of getting a 3 setter and all of them being blue. Also, there's a couple more, but as JefJef said, the odds off that in CC aren't that bad.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:45 pm
by Metsfanmax
I count 19 territories on this map. Assume the cards are randomly distributed so that the probability of getting any territory is the same, i.e. 1/19. Then the question is simply, what are the chances of getting a specific territory in a set of three cards. If you only had one card, the chances would be 1/19. If you have three, the chance that one of them is the given territory is 3/19. That's about 16%.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:48 pm
by L M S
Also that blue had those exact same terits and it was round 4.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:49 pm
by Metsfanmax
L M S wrote:also that blue had those same terits only and it was round 4.
That's impossible to analyze; we can't assign probabilities to how the game played out, because that's based on attacking choices of each player, which are not random and are not easily predictable.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:51 pm
by L M S
lol, spoken like a true math guy.
The point is that the odds of that happening are crazy.

Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:50 pm
by Army of GOD
jigger1986 wrote:My calculations put it at about 0.000125 %
(1/Nu)*3
Nu-Number of territories (19)
I could be wrong though, Im not a huge stats guy, its just what I think.
You're saying 3 divided by 19 is 0.00000125?
You should check your calculations...
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:28 am
by Master Fenrir
Army of GOD wrote:jigger1986 wrote:My calculations put it at about 0.000125 %
(1/Nu)*3
Nu-Number of territories (19)
I could be wrong though, Im not a huge stats guy, its just what I think.
You're saying 3 divided by 19 is 0.00000125?
You should check your calculations...
No, he's saying 1 divided by 19 then multiplied by 3.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:34 am
by Army of GOD
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Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:35 am
by jigger1986
No I was saying 1 divided by 19, then cubed.
But as someone (like 5 seconds later) there are other variables I left out initially.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:37 am
by Army of GOD
Haha ohhh, ok. Do you use the * for exponents, or was that just a typo?
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Sat Feb 26, 2011 2:40 am
by Commander62890
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeX69TOEw6Y (skip to 0:53)
By the way, are you guys taking into account the fact that you can't get the same card (territory) twice?
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Sat Feb 26, 2011 6:13 am
by sherkaner
Chance would be chance of getting those 3 territories: 3*2*1/19*18*17 times the chance of getting a set: 1/3.
That makes it 0.0344 %
Small, but way larger than the chance of winning the lottery.
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:21 am
by Metsfanmax
sherkaner wrote:Chance would be chance of getting those 3 territories: 3*2*1/19*18*17 times the chance of getting a set: 1/3.
That makes it 0.0344 %
Small, but way larger than the chance of winning the lottery.
There's no point in analyzing the chances of getting that particular set, because at that point where do you draw the line? Do you take into account the fact that LMS was wearing his lucky socks that day?
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

Posted:
Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:49 am
by Crazyirishman
28% nuff said
Re: OK Smartypants Math Guys and Girls...

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Sat Feb 26, 2011 12:39 pm
by L M S
Metsfanmax wrote:sherkaner wrote:Chance would be chance of getting those 3 territories: 3*2*1/19*18*17 times the chance of getting a set: 1/3.
That makes it 0.0344 %
Small, but way larger than the chance of winning the lottery.
There's no point in analyzing the chances of getting that particular set, because at that point where do you draw the line? Do you take into account the fact that LMS was wearing his lucky socks that day?
But did you know that at the time I was ONLY wearing my lucky socks?