Timeline for Risk of extinction of Schrödinger's cats
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| Oct 27, 2012 at 22:25 | vote | accept | rudivonstaden | ||
| Oct 26, 2012 at 18:59 | comment | added | whuber♦ | (+1) This is identical to the convolution solution I posted, except the convolutions are performed directly rather than with a built-in convolution function. There's little reason to prefer one method over the other for 15 probabilities, but with, say, 150000 of them, you might want to look at using an FFT. I had the same suspicions as you about numerical error creeping in, which is why I did the Mathematica comparison: it used exact arithmetic and its answers--fractions with large numerators and denominators--were converted to machine precision only at the end. The agreement was great. | |
| Oct 26, 2012 at 18:22 | comment | added | rudivonstaden | Thank you, @StasK, this also looks like a good solution. +1 for the algorithm. | |
| Oct 26, 2012 at 18:13 | history | answered | StasK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |