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If you run the fob 100 times, the probability of seeing "123456" at least once is about 1% (1 in 100 chance). One person in every hundred
by ipaddr 2y ago
If you run the fob 100 times, the probability of seeing "123456" at least once is about 1% (1 in 100 chance).
One person in every hundred
- KeplerBoy 2y agoIt's not? There's a (1**6-1)/1**6 chance of not getting it on any given try, so there's a ~1/10**4 chance of getting it within 100 tries. So quite unlikely, but of course possible and bound to happen among millions of users.
- sdwr 2y agoThere are also other sequences arguably as noteworthy as 123456: - 111111 through 999999 - 102030, 112233, 124816, 112358 - 000001, 911911 - 696969, 666999, 600009, 069420 - the user's birth YYMMDD, DDMMYY, MMDDYY etc - the current DDMMYY etc
- neilv 2y agoI got 100 actuations has 1 chance in 10,000, which is unlikely, but not maybe not as unlikely as it seemed at first glance. 1 actuation has 1 chance in 1e6 1e2 actuations has 1e2 chances in 1e6 1e2 actuations has 1 chance in 1e4