[ba-poker] Re: [BARGE] Math is hard, and sometimes harder to explain.

[William Chen <wchen_8369(deleted the rest)>]

--- Perry Friedman <friedman(deleted the rest)> wrote:
> A definitional question first.  Do you mean that the
> chances of being
> dealt quads ONE OR MORE times in the session is
> 1/10, or the chances of
> being dealt EXACTLY 1 time is 1/10?  I assume you
> mean the former, as in
> the chances of being dealt quads on a given hand is
> .9^(1/N).
> 
> Perry

I'm sure Perry has caught this by now, but for the
others on this list, the .9^(1/N) is the chances of
NOT being dealt quads on one hand.  

Bill