What are the odds ...

kw18

I had my music player on shuffle, and Habit from No Code came on. The next song? Habit, from the 1998 Barrie show.

What are the odds? 1 out of 246,197.

...

I think. I was an English major, after all.

What were the odds for some inexplicable event that occurred for you?

davidtrios

habit playing back to back is a habit in itself

afroannnie

kw18 wrote:

I had my music player on shuffle, and Habit from No Code came on. The next song? Habit, from the 1998 Barrie show.

What are the odds? 1 out of 246,197.

...

I think. I was an English major, after all.

What were the odds for some inexplicable event that occurred for you?

Can I see your calculations? :corn:

peacefrompaul

I was born

What are the odds

pearljam133

I'd be pretty pissed since Habit is by far my least favorite PJ song.

kw18

davidtrios wrote:

habit playing back to back is a habit in itself

afroannnie wrote:

Can I see your calculations? :corn:

I have 11 versions of Habit, and 5,458 songs on my mp3 player. So 1/[(11/5,458)*(11/5,458)].

Right? :?

kw18

peacefrompaul wrote:

I was born

What are the odds

Basically zero: http://visual.ly/what-are-odds

That's either frightening or liberating, depending on your point of view, I suppose.

afroannnie

kw18 wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

Can I see your calculations? :corn:

I have 11 versions of Habit, and 5,458 songs on my mp3 player. So 1/[(11/5,458)*(11/5,458)].

Right? :?

I think it depends on if your shuffler repeats? If not, I think it's whatever songs were left to be played...say there were 4,002 left, then it would be 1/4,002? I think it's the same as the old flipping a quarter question....what are the odds of getting heads? it's always 1/2..even if the previous 100 flips were heads.

I think this is right...? :?

JonnyPistachio

I remember when I posed a question to the woman I just met (who turned out to be my wife).
I think I said, "what are the odds that you would like to get on my handlebars and come back to my place and listen to records?"

the answer was: slim to none...
thankfully.
I was hammered and would've made a sloppy move on her.

and PS - by "handlebars" I meant my bike, not my mustache. :P

mysticweed

JonnyPistachio wrote:

and PS - by "handlebars" I meant my bike, not my mustache. :P

too bad

afroannnie

JonnyPistachio wrote:

and PS - by "handlebars" I meant my bike, not my mustache. :P

If you meant the mustache...her answer would have been yes for sure.
I mean nobody ever says no to this guy...

afroannnie

What are the odds of flying over 2,200 miles into the middle of nowhere and finding the most awesome person ever? :think:

RKCNDY

afroannnie wrote:

What are the odds of flying over 2,200 miles into the middle of nowhere and finding the most awesome person ever? :think:

there was some arm twisting to figure into your calculations arm grabbed at 'x'°, rotated at 'y' angle, with 'z' torque...or something like that

...and to think, they also traveled (how many miles Dirty Frank-ing organizer?!?!?!) to go to a campground in the middle of nowhere and pick up dog poop.

afroannnie

RKCNDY wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

What are the odds of flying over 2,200 miles into the middle of nowhere and finding the most awesome person ever? :think:

there was some arm twisting to figure into your calculations arm grabbed at 'x'°, rotated at 'y' angle, with 'z' torque...or something like that

...and to think, they also traveled (how many miles Dirty Frank-ing organizer?!?!?!) to go to a campground in the middle of nowhere and pick up dog poop.

and then the odds that I picked you to give my alpine ticket to...but then you passed it to unlost, who was my mt ticket (factor in odds of getting tix via public sale) buddy and master kidnapper....

RKCNDY

afroannnie wrote:

RKCNDY wrote:

afroannnie wrote:

What are the odds of flying over 2,200 miles into the middle of nowhere and finding the most awesome person ever? :think:

there was some arm twisting to figure into your calculations arm grabbed at 'x'°, rotated at 'y' angle, with 'z' torque...or something like that

...and to think, they also traveled (how many miles Dirty Frank-ing organizer?!?!?!) to go to a campground in the middle of nowhere and pick up dog poop.

and then the odds that I picked you to give my alpine ticket to...but then you passed it to unlost, who was my mt ticket (factor in odds of getting tix via public sale) buddy and master kidnapper....

who was also the master planner of getting the cops off our trail whilst I was driving a very illegal clown car..."lemmie just get out and pretend like we're getting directions because we're lost"...

afroannnie

RKCNDY wrote:

who was also the master planner of getting the cops off our trail whilst I was driving a very illegal clown car..."lemmie just get out and pretend like we're getting directions because we're lost"...

Classic. :fp:

shep

kw18 wrote:

I have 11 versions of Habit, and 5,458 songs on my mp3 player. So 1/[(11/5,458)*(11/5,458)].

Right? :?

Correct, assuming that your shuffle feature is set on repeats.

if not, it changes to 1/ [(11/5458)*(10/5458)] = 1 in 270,766 chance.

kw18

RKCNDY wrote:

...and to think, they also traveled (how many miles Dirty Frank-ing organizer?!?!?!) to go to a campground in the middle of nowhere and pick up dog poop.

1,600, each way, give or take.

And, hey, someone had to do it.

mookeywrench

shep wrote:

kw18 wrote:

I have 11 versions of Habit, and 5,458 songs on my mp3 player. So 1/[(11/5,458)*(11/5,458)].

Right? :?

Correct, assuming that your shuffle feature is set on repeats.

if not, it changes to 1/ [(11/5458)*(10/5458)] = 1 in 270,766 chance.

But doesn't this equation use the assumption that order matters?

ldent42

NO MATH ALLOWED ON THE FORUM!!!!!!!!!! :nono: :nono:

besides the economics guy monitoring PJ ticket resale values for Wrigley.

RKCNDY

duska3419 wrote:

NO MATH ALLOWED ON THE FORUM!!!!!!!!!! :nono: :nono:

besides the economics guy monitoring PJ ticket resale values for Wrigley.

what about science? is science okay? :?