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To: SZonian

Hmmm. Here are the probabilities of each of those letters in English.

Letter Probability Cum Probability
i 0.0794
f 0.0147 0.00116718
u 0.0366 4.27188E-05
c 0.0474 2.02487E-06
k 0.0084 1.70089E-08
y 0.02 3.40178E-10
o 0.0712 2.42207E-11
u 0.0366 8.86477E-13

There are eight letters to be selected independently. What are the odds that each of those letters would appear in a random eight selection. The answer is:

0.000000000000086

That’s really low. But it gets lower. You need to factor in the probability that they would appear in the order to spell out the three word message of eight letters. I believe the odds of that are 1/8!. When you put those together, the proabilitiy of those letters appearing in just that order is :

0.0000000000000000022

Fewer than one letter out of one quintillion letters would produce that sequence by random chance.


7 posted on 10/29/2009 12:38:05 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

I understand, however, it’s good to see someone, anyone, even Ahnold telling a piece of trash to do exactly what he told him after what that piece of trash told Ahnold.

I’m fed up with pc. PC can kiss my _ _ _ !@!

SZ


8 posted on 10/29/2009 8:19:25 AM PDT by SZonian (Phillies Phan in SoCal (still laying low from the Doyers fans))
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