On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Ben Leslie wrote:
> > > 1) The chance of a combination of binary code coming out in the exact
> > > format of "+++ath0" is literally staggering. Winning lotto, by comparison,
> > > would be an every day event.
> >
> > Yes, 1 in 72057594037927936.
>
> or more nicely 2 ^ 56. Which means in every 16.7 million 4 gig chunks of
Whoa! Whoa! Stop right there guys. You are all making one huge assumption
that the data is random. And thats just plain wrong. None of your numbers
are at all meaningful, given that one little oversight.
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