How Low Can You Roll and Still Win? - Page 2

Mareth · 07-28-2007, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Calamari

Why do people bother having loot rolls display in chat?

To see who the hell rolls repeatedly on the no-trade loot.

Lizerd Keng · 07-30-2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by killua_ncream

In technicalities, you could roll a 2, and win out of 24...though the probability of that occurring is HIGHLY unlikely..

But wouldn't the probability of that happening be exactly the same as trying to predict any other possibility?

Savanja · 07-30-2007, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Mareth

To see who the hell rolls repeatedly on the no-trade loot.

Truly.

I keep mine in a window on its own so I can keep track of all the loot I don't win.

killua_ncream · 07-30-2007, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Lizerd Keng

But wouldn't the probability of that happening be exactly the same as trying to predict any other possibility?

Yes, but that's not the answer to the OP's question.

If the random were to be just from 0 to 1, the probability of 23 people rolling a 0 would be, (1/2)^23, correct? I would assume so since 1 person rolling a 0 is mutually exclusive from another person rolling a 0. They are not influential of each other.

If we extrapolate that to 0 to 99, you have (1/100)^23...yeah. Needless to say, it's HIGHLY unlikely.

Unless I'm mis-thinking this. I really can't stand Statistics, so I never really bothered to remember anything to deal with it.

After writing this post, I'm not even sure if the above #'s are the correct way of interpreting this. Factorials keep popping to my head as I press submit. =\