today i learned that Wolfram Alpha is exactly like a freshman in Introduction to Probability and Statistics in that it thinks that, if you have five 24% chances to get something, your chance of getting it is 120%
yeah, what i really want is the approximately 20% chance of getting none of them. phrasing it that from that direction doesn't seem to be helping it either
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Yeah as manual calculations go this one is easy, it's just (1 - .24) ^5. I'm trying to see how I could get this out of WA tho
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it doesn't seem to be geared for stats language at all
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