On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:21:14AM -0500, Chris Caldwell wrote: > So after 5 minutes the probability it was 15 minutes from when you > arrived (10 minutes from now) is the same as the probability it > arrives within 10 minutes of when you first got there. So you have > the memory, not the process.
Yes, that is the same as I said. One of the key parts of a Poisson process is that events are independent. Now, I don't really believe Mersenne primes arrive as a Poisson process... Perhaps if you did a few logs first. :-) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
