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It's perfectly reasonable to approximate a+b=a+b(1-a) when combining rare events without announcing it to everybody. Likewise with n repetitions of that.
by SamReidHughes 11y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to approximate a+b=a+b(1-a) when combining rare events without announcing it to everybody. Likewise with n repetitions of that.
- grayclhn 11y agoFair enough, but it's also reasonable to approximate 9.33 × 10^-296 as 0. I felt like doing the calculations :)