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Old 11-17-2007, 07:06 PM
jbrennen jbrennen is offline
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Default Re: What would be the best limit to start at?

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Still too lazy to look up my formula, but one program tweak later and as far as I can see it, the 95% confident mark (95% of the time, it's within 1% of EV for N trials) happens for N=~8800

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I think your random number generator must have some "issues" if that's true.

The actual probability that if you flip a coin 8800 times, that the number of heads will be 4400 +/ 1% is only 65.7%.
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