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by grayclhn 1548 days ago
And yet... here you are, having applied that same mathematical principle to calculate the probability of observing a one-in-a-million event at least once in 4mil independent trials. That's probably something you already knew how to do, but if not, it's a pretty educational moment. ;)

ps — "to be pedantic" means "fun fact" but sarcastically.
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Dylan16807 1548 days ago
The bulk of your post was educational, but it was misleadingly shown as an answer to both "million" and "millions", when those two scenarios actually have very different answers.

> ps — "to be pedantic" means "fun fact" but sarcastically.

It means that, but also sets it up as a correction. But "millions" being "every day" was right all along.

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