Probability
Rolling two 6-sided dice gives you a chance of 1 in 36 chance of getting a snake eyes each time you roll the dice.
Rolling two 6-sided dice 25 times gives a probability of .505532 that at least once, snake eyes will appear.
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Famous quotes containing the word probability:
“Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be “too clever by half.” The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.”
—John Major (b. 1943)
“Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“The probability of learning something unusual from a newspaper is far greater than that of experiencing it; in other words, it is in the realm of the abstract that the more important things happen in these times, and it is the unimportant that happens in real life.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)