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Article #855Re: Desperate situation
From: William B Dwinnell
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:43
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:43
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Assuming that you mean by the "average" person, the point at which half of the people have diesxxx (sorry, I did it again!) diesxsasdc died, the following progression applies: Turn number Cumulative proportion of people dead 1 .1667 2 .3056 3 .4213 4 .5177 <-- Oops! Half of 'em are dead! Yuck! There may be a way to get an exact figure, like 3.9something something, but it escapes me at the moment... Any more questions? By the way a Monte Carlo simulation, or a Las Vegas simulation might help here...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!opl.com!hri.com!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!pitt.edu!wbdst From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) Newsgroups: sci.math.stat Subject: Re: Desperate situation Message-ID: <2567@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 26 Jan 93 19:43:43 GMT References: <1993Jan26.183234.20186@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <2564@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news+@pitt.edu Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 14