2009-07-09, 03:40 PM
Russt Wrote:Why has this been continually bumped from February?
The "Law of Averages" is a myth.
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/fantas...-averages/
http://www.wessa.net/rwasp_rwalk.wasp
http://www.probabilitytheory.info/topics...umbers.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_averages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
That dealt with, it is possible that MS's server keeps a count of successes and failures. But there's no reason to. Having the server increment a count every time someone scrolls something or kills a monster or plays Gach and keep track of all that stuff without breaking? Nah. Much simpler to just times-2147483-plus-101-take-the-remainder.
Well, I agree with you and disagree with you. I agree that I used the wrong term, I should have used the term "The Law of Large Numbers" as that describes what I am talking about. Nexon doesn't have to "keep track" of anything, the natural law of Large Numbers will assure that 60% of the 60% scrolls work and that 30% of the 30% scrolls work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

