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by hateful 2773 days ago
Remember, it's not that you're rolling 1 billion dice expecting to get all sixes. It's that you're constantly re-rolling the dice that aren't sixes to get sixes.
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I don't get this point. The probability argued would take this into account. It could be that the probability is _that_ small that even if you keep rolling you don't reach it.