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%
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the key phrase for this thing is dependent probabilities, because if the question you're asking is "at least one", that makes them dependent on each other, in the form of that you're only *not* going to get at least one if they *all* fail
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Hrnn it makes them dependent when the result is known but not when it isn't. It's a causal merge
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. Like compounded probability, never learned it. How does it increase? Is that what “logarithmic” means? Lol