Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-24 Thread Antony Prince
On March 25, 2016 12:34:51 AM EDT, Antony Prince wrote: >On March 24, 2016 11:17:58 PM EDT, "Marcio Barbado, Jr." > wrote: >>Not sure if it's counterintuitive once tossing can be seen as >>abandoning inertia. >> >> >>Marcio Barbado, Jr. >> >> >> >>On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Peter Lebbing >>

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-24 Thread Antony Prince
On March 24, 2016 11:17:58 PM EDT, "Marcio Barbado, Jr." wrote: >Not sure if it's counterintuitive once tossing can be seen as >abandoning inertia. > > >Marcio Barbado, Jr. > > > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Peter Lebbing > wrote: >> On 14/03/16 10:37, Fulano Diego Perez wrote: >>> >https://

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-24 Thread Marcio Barbado, Jr.
Not sure if it's counterintuitive once tossing can be seen as abandoning inertia. Marcio Barbado, Jr. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 14/03/16 10:37, Fulano Diego Perez wrote: >> https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy/ > > S

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Viktor Dick
On 2016-03-18 13:18, Peter Lebbing wrote: > Can someone point me in the direction of the solution to this > counterintuitive probability theory result? Any of a common name for the > property, a mathematical explanation or an intuitive explanation are > much appreciated! Any match of a pattern (HH

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 19 Mar 2016, at 15:34, Peter Lebbing wrote: > >> On 18/03/16 14:26, Andrew Gallagher wrote: >> Alternatively, we could consider how we treat the sequence history after >> a "success". Do we wipe the slate clean once we get ten heads and start >> over? Or if the eleventh toss was another hea

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 03/18/2016 05:18 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: Can someone point me in the direction of the solution to this counterintuitive probability theory result? You already got good answers as to why this happens from Viktor and Andrew. You can illustrate them by adding TT to your analysis. Doug ___

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Peter Lebbing
Thank you all for helpful responses, I understand where the difference comes from now! On 18/03/16 14:26, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Alternatively, we could consider how we treat the sequence history after > a "success". Do we wipe the slate clean once we get ten heads and start > over? Or if the e

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 19/03/16 08:31, Fulano Diego Perez wrote: > Doug Barton: >> You already got good answers /after/ as to why this happens Please, please, /please/ don't change any text you are quoting. This is not what Doug said, so it is not a quote, but really looks like one. Other than that, I have no idea w

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 18/03/16 12:18, Peter Lebbing wrote: > > After over a million coin tosses, it takes 6 tosses on average until you > see two heads in a row, but only 4 to see head-tail. Obviously, the > script is attached. Supply the patterns on invocation, as shown above. > Any number of patterns of any length

Re: (OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-19 Thread Fulano Diego Perez
Doug Barton: > You already got good answers /after/ as to why this happens ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

(OT) mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy

2016-03-18 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 14/03/16 10:37, Fulano Diego Perez wrote: > https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy/ So forgive me for the off-topicness, but something in the text caught my attention: > Soundararajan was drawn to study consecutive primes after hearing a > lecture at S