RE: Odds Calculating

2003-12-05 Thread Andre Turrettini
ng big and smurfing huge as required by smurfette. Hey This makes asking tech questions fun!!! -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:03 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Odds Calculating My bad, hot cheerleaders I scat fre

Re: Odds Calculating

2003-12-05 Thread B. Patrick Ledwith
It's100^93 1e+186 - Original Message - From: "John Stanley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: Odds Calculating > How does one determine the odds of randomly duplicating a string that is 100 > characters long and

RE: Odds Calculating

2003-12-05 Thread John Stanley
2003 12:00 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Odds Calculating 93^100 Big-ass number. Not very sexy, though.  You should review the rules for posting tech questions.  :-) --benD John Stanley wrote: > How does one determine the odds of randomly duplicating a string that is 100 > characte

RE: Odds Calculating

2003-12-05 Thread Ian Skinner
1/93*1/93*1/93.n100 I'm sure there is a mathematical short cut to this, but that is the basic result. -- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA -Original Message- From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Decembe

Re: Odds Calculating

2003-12-05 Thread Ben Doom
93^100 Big-ass number. Not very sexy, though.  You should review the rules for posting tech questions.  :-) --benD John Stanley wrote: > How does one determine the odds of randomly duplicating a string that is 100 > characters long and each character can be one of 93 different characters. > >

Re: Odds Calculating

2003-12-05 Thread Matthew Small
The chances are: 100 Places with 93 different characters, order matters, duplications of letters ok  = 93^100 - Matt Small   - Original Message -   From: John Stanley   To: CF-Community   Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:28 AM   Subject: Odds Calculating   How does one determine th