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  • #31
    *only true for n=7
    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
    Stadtluft Macht Frei
    Killing it is the new killing it
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    • #32
      A minor quibble.
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      "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Lorizael View Post
        Lori's Last Theorem: The odds of three like letters in a set appearing in a row is equal to 1/n, where n is the total number of letters in the set. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this post is too small to contain.
        I'm guessing you were kidding, but try a trivial example, like n=3. Then the probability is clearly 1, not 1/3.

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        • #34
          Bah. 1/3 and 1 are close enough.
          Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
          "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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          • #35
            You need to kill yourself. It's the only way to maintain the aura of mystery around your theorem.
            No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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