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by hannibal5 4672 days ago
btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%

If you try things that have 0.1% change one after another, the change of succeeding has binomial distribution. The probability that you get at least one success is just 63%

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> btw. he says 0.1% not 0.01%

it was originally posted as 0.01%.

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