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why this thing is virtually impossible by Mur

Mur
Mur
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23rd Dec 2016
24th Dec 2016
I suck at math, but according to my maths, it has a chance of 1/2 199 023 255 552, or 1/2^41 of sparking the final output. Includes pretty histogram and histogram generator. All credit for the gaussian distributor goes to samm9. Histogram plotter by me.
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Comments

  • Anonym8
    Anonym8     27th Dec 2016
    It does around 240 per minute (give or take). In an hour, 14,400. In a day, 365,600. In a year, 126,144,000. In a century, 12,614,400,000. In a millenium, 126,144,000,000. Times 1.5 is 10 billion off, so basically at 60fps it'd take 1500 years.
  • DubMonster
    DubMonster     26th Dec 2016
    you cant say you suck at math, i suck on it
  • R33sesK1ng
    R33sesK1ng     26th Dec 2016
    little much; don't'ya think?
  • FrenkeeS
    FrenkeeS     26th Dec 2016
    what about this, just dont know how to interprate what i see there http://mathforum.org/dr.cgi/pascal.cgi?rows=24
  • FrenkeeS
    FrenkeeS     25th Dec 2016
    Mur: my apologize - you have 48 different outputs so so the array will look like -24 to 24 i made some google doc sheet - you can commend it right there if you tell me your nick a give you permisions to play around with formulas https://goo.gl/at1JxV
  • AWSM007
    AWSM007     25th Dec 2016
    Your the type of person that makes the modern world turn +1 for science!
  • Mur
    Mur     25th Dec 2016
    @FrenkeeS: I understand nearly nothing about Excel, but I think the range isn't -48...48, what you should count is the number of levels in the gaussian distributor, which is 24, 0..23
  • FrenkeeS
    FrenkeeS     24th Dec 2016
    i mean in A1:-48,A2:-47... and in A97:48
  • FrenkeeS
    FrenkeeS     24th Dec 2016
    in excel you can compute NORMDIST for every single number and make a plot and - voiola you get gausian curve.
  • FrenkeeS
    FrenkeeS     24th Dec 2016
    i think its not simple math as you compute it. As you said its gausian distribution and this have own formulas. In excel you can compute this very siply - in A1: 48 in B1: =NORMDIST(A1;0;2;0) , you get 1.67135722089723E-126, that is incredibly small number.