And actually, you're oversimplifying--you're assuming you have 365 artists in a uniform distribution. I'd expect about 15% of any random mix to be one artist (Marillion) since they're about 15% of my track count. The combinatorics are actually more complicated than that (and they are with the birthday paradox as well, but assuming a uniform distribution of birthdays works for the parlor trick aspect of it).
snarlydwarf;391911 Wrote: > (and now that I have had my caffeine..) > > Since I am too lazy to do the math, we'll pretend you have 365 artists > in your library. > > If you choose 23 random tracks, then, you have a 50% or so chance that > two of the tracks will be by the same artist. > > If you choose 30 random tracks, then about 70% of the time two will be > by the same artist. > > For 50 tracks, you're at 99% chance of repeated artists. > > If you have less artists, then the chances go up, of course... and if > you have 365 albums, well, replace "artist" with "album" above. Ie, > with 365 albums, choosing 50 random tracks will almost always have at > least two tracks from the same album. -- mrfantasy --Mike http://last.fm/user/mrfantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59041 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list beta@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
