Timeline for Have I found something new? (a formula for the odds of rolling at least one 1 when rolling an n-sided die n times)
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| Jun 5, 2023 at 0:50 | comment | added | Sycorax♦ | You can do math typesetting using mathjax. math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/… | |
| Jun 5, 2023 at 0:43 | answer | added | Bob Robertson | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 2, 2021 at 20:37 | comment | added | Bob Robertson | @Fierce82 The standard formula you've shared is surely easier to solve computationally than is the formula I stumbled across... and gives the same answers... but the potential insights seem different. | |
| May 2, 2021 at 20:18 | comment | added | Fierce82 | Prob of one "1" in one roll is 1/n. Prob of no "1" 1-1/n. Prob of no "1" in n rolls: (1-1/n)^n. Prob of at least one "1" in n rolls: 1-(1-1/n)^n | |
| May 2, 2021 at 20:12 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 2, 2021 at 20:12 | history | asked | Bob Robertson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |