I've been meaning to ask this for ages.
In real life a couple weeks ago, a 7-horse field finished in post position order, 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7. What are the odds/probability?
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Re: A Question for Ronnie Dee
Not Ronnie Dee, but, I believe it's 1/7!.
Or, about 0.02%
Or, about 0.02%
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As a general math idiot how do ! work in fractions? Googling it told my dumb brain that 0.02% works out to 1/5000 and I have no idea how to make that conversion over to 1/7! lmao
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Re: A Question for Ronnie Dee
7! = 7*6*5*4*3*2*1 = 5040Rebecca Rose Hepburn wrote: ↑2 years agoAs a general math idiot how do ! work in fractions? Googling it told my dumb brain that 0.02% works out to 1/5000 and I have no idea how to make that conversion over to 1/7! lmao
Note: the "!" stands for "factorial"
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Problems such as this are referred to as permutations.
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Re: A Question for Ronnie Dee
Ah, that make sense! Thanks for the info
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