2010-07-16, 02:09 AM
1/2^8 = about .4% or about 1/250. So it's certainly rare but nothing incredible.
Getting three 10%s to pass consecutively in Maple is four times as rare in comparison!
But I'm sure there are people who can predict more than eight games in a row. It just happened to be an octopus that happened to guess eight games.
Besides, if the octopus had any real balls, he would have predicted all the games correctly.
Getting three 10%s to pass consecutively in Maple is four times as rare in comparison!
Horusmaster Wrote:Considering there are thousands of different predictions made by different people/object/animals on the world cup, and one of them (the octopus) predicting all of them right is just very normal.
But I'm sure there are people who can predict more than eight games in a row. It just happened to be an octopus that happened to guess eight games.
Besides, if the octopus had any real balls, he would have predicted all the games correctly.