To: SmithL
'wild coincidence' The probabilities could be as low as:
27 to the 10th power, or one in 205,891,132,094,649... or one in about 205 Trillion. This is assuming:
There was no overflow in my calculator in a number that large; the letters are equal in occurrence, but of course they are not; the 27th "letter" factors in a paragraph start.
13 posted on
10/30/2009 12:57:11 PM PDT by
C210N
(A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
To: C210N
I believe you algorithm is incorrect. I is based on the random appearance of letters. The number of possible words is far different than the number of random letter occurrences.
How many possible words are there and in combinations that actually would make sense? A very difficult probability to approach.
24 posted on
10/30/2009 1:07:42 PM PDT by
Sudetenland
(Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
To: C210N
The probabilities could be as low as:
27 to the 10th power, or one in 205,891,132,094,649... or one in about 205 Trillion. This is assuming:
There was no overflow in my calculator in a number that large; the letters are equal in occurrence, but of course they are not; the 27th "letter" factors in a paragraph start.
So see, it COULD be a coincidence.
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