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Using the formula in the article: - Out of 1500 comics (at the time of the article), 45 random selections gives you a 48.656% chance of a duplicate, and 46 giv
by Cyphase 3y ago
Using the formula in the article:
- Out of 1500 comics (at the time of the article), 45 random selections gives you a 48.656% chance of a duplicate, and 46 gives you a 50.196% chance.
- Out of 2873 comics (as of right now), 63 random selections gives you a 49.579% chance of a duplicate, and 64 gives you a 50.685% chance.
2929 comics is the most from which randomly selecting 64 will have a greater than 50% chance of having duplicates (50.00854657587404%).
- dessimus 3y agoSeems like a variation on the birthday paradox.
- roywiggins 3y agoThe difficulty of finding unseen comics as you keep pressing "random" is more like the coupon collector's problem, but of course they're related. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem?w...