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Old 09-21-2007, 09:28 PM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: Hole in one odds from Yahoo news story

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If we assume independence it should be :

(1/5001)^2*5000/5001 + 5000/5001*(1/5001)^2*5000/5001 +
(5000/5001)*(1/5001)^2 = 0.0000001199

ie ppq,qppq,qpp

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Mine is the exact answer btw .

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Exact for what? If you are excluding cases where more than 2 players make aces, then you would need to exclude ppqp and qppp which are now being counted. No other case of 3 or more is currently being counted.
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