MellowJoe
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Especially if they planned and committed suicide with that in mind
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The Maths Thread
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SkyBlueFlux
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I would imagine newborn mortality is significantly less than 1 in 1000 in the Western world. Perhaps a bit higher in developing countries. Anyway I would hazard a guess that the chances of dying on your birthday is well under .01%.
I guess thinking about this in a totally different (slightly insane) way...
The probability of somebody dying on the day they were born is technically zero. Because if they had died they wouldn't be around to pose the question about the probability of their death in the first place. It's sort of like the anthropic principle or a form of sampling bias - like... of all the planes that came back alive from dogfights in WWII, 0% of the pilots got shot in the head.
IT’s science not weird!i'm guessing again, but i think the chances are that someone soon is going to call you well weird.
johnnytapia
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Still does my head in that:
Are there more equivalent fractions to 6/10 than there are to 3/7?
I’d say there are more to 6/10 because of 3/5 but the mathematician would say there are an infinite number to both 6/10 and 3/7.
Yeah, but you can simplify 6/10.
Yeah, but you can’t have “more “ equivalent fractions than an infinite number of equivalent fractions!
Are there more equivalent fractions to 6/10 than there are to 3/7?
I’d say there are more to 6/10 because of 3/5 but the mathematician would say there are an infinite number to both 6/10 and 3/7.
Yeah, but you can simplify 6/10.
Yeah, but you can’t have “more “ equivalent fractions than an infinite number of equivalent fractions!
mancity2012_eamo
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"a lot" is not a specific enough answer for a maths question,a lot?
and anyway, the question didn't ask how many.
Some infinities are larger than other infinities.Still does my head in that:
Are there more equivalent fractions to 6/10 than there are to 3/7?
I’d say there are more to 6/10 because of 3/5 but the mathematician would say there are an infinite number to both 6/10 and 3/7.
Yeah, but you can simplify 6/10.
Yeah, but you can’t have “more “ equivalent fractions than an infinite number of equivalent fractions!
PragueBlue
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I wish I could understand that!Still does my head in that:
Are there more equivalent fractions to 6/10 than there are to 3/7?
I’d say there are more to 6/10 because of 3/5 but the mathematician would say there are an infinite number to both 6/10 and 3/7.
Yeah, but you can simplify 6/10.
Yeah, but you can’t have “more “ equivalent fractions than an infinite number of equivalent fractions!
mancity2012_eamo
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And I would say that’s wrong.thanks.
to be frank, i'm not sure i know the answer to the question.
i made it up out of the blue the other night while drinking wine with a pal.
all we could do was come to the conclusion that the answer cannot be anything other than 50/50 because there are only 2 possible outcomes on the day you are born...
you either live or you die.
mancity2012_eamo
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More wine.yeah, we talked about that at length and using completely non-scientific methods agreed that, all things considered, there was a fair likelihood, as is often the case in nature, that things tend to balance themselves out in the long run when the numbers are in the billions.
Yes please.
Now back to the life or death chances.
Oh screw that.
East Level 2
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Scouse infinities mean more.Some infinities are larger than other infinities.