{"id":47384,"date":"2024-06-15T02:47:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47384"},"modified":"2024-06-15T02:47:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T02:47:30","slug":"math-philosophy-unlikelihood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-philosophy-unlikelihood\/","title":{"rendered":"Math, philosophy: unlikelihood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about math and life: the tutor mentions an unlikely event.<\/h2>\n<p>\nToday I was using a new software package. Naturally enough, I decided to test the random function. It was modelling rolling a die, and I wanted to make sure it could return each number 1 through 6.<\/p>\n<p>\nA 3 didn&#8217;t appear until the 21st simulated roll. The probability of that happening is ((5\/6)^20)*(1\/6) or about 0.4%. Yet, it happened.<\/p>\n<p>\nUnlikely events happen:)\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about math and life: the tutor mentions an unlikely event. Today I was using a new software package. Naturally enough, I decided to test the random function. It was modelling rolling a die, and I wanted to make sure &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-philosophy-unlikelihood\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math, philosophy: unlikelihood<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47384"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47388,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47384\/revisions\/47388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}