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minus-squaressboomman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoFrom what I understand it works like this. Let’s say you have a series of numbers that represent real life data. In general the first number of all of these numbers will be a 1, 30% of the time.
minus-squareJ12@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoThanks, that makes sense. I must be missing a link or article on my client otherwise I would’ve read it lol
minus-squarehalvo317@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·11 months agoSuch as “1000 rolls”
minus-squareidiomaddict@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoIt applies to situations with more than one order of magnitude being counted, such as d20 rolls, 55% of which will start with a 1.
minus-squarehalvo317@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoThe “1” of the “1000” is the real life number. He didn’t pick “785” or “462”.
minus-squareNotSpez@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted.
From what I understand it works like this.
Let’s say you have a series of numbers that represent real life data. In general the first number of all of these numbers will be a 1, 30% of the time.
Thanks, that makes sense. I must be missing a link or article on my client otherwise I would’ve read it lol
Such as “1000 rolls”
It applies to situations with more than one order of magnitude being counted, such as d20 rolls, 55% of which will start with a 1.
The “1” of the “1000” is the real life number. He didn’t pick “785” or “462”.
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.