@[email protected] to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • 8 months agoYou are compared with 99 other people chosen randomly. If you are better than everyone else in a specific domain, you win 1 million €/$. What do you choose?message-square86fedilinkarrow-up166
arrow-up166message-squareYou are compared with 99 other people chosen randomly. If you are better than everyone else in a specific domain, you win 1 million €/$. What do you choose?@[email protected] to Casual Conversation @lemm.eeEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•8 months agoEven if they had an identical twin, what are the odds of their twin being in the pool of 99 other randomly chosen people?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•8 months agoHaha good point, i hadn’t considered the odds of 99 out of 8 billion including an identical twin
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 months agoA quick approximation with a desktop calculator says 0.000001%
No identical twin then?
Even if they had an identical twin, what are the odds of their twin being in the pool of 99 other randomly chosen people?
Haha good point, i hadn’t considered the odds of 99 out of 8 billion including an identical twin
A quick approximation with a desktop calculator says 0.000001%