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Started by Honest December 21st, 2013 7:47 AM
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Khilia

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Because even if there is 1 black one left, there is still a 10% chance that you can pull that black one out. So you need to remove them all, so that on your 15th try, there is a 100% chance that you would pull out a white since there are no black ones left. Any other time, there is still at least a slim percentage of a black, even though that'd be highly unlikely.
Well that does make sense, yet our problem was formulated that way that it sounded like how many spheres would you need to pull out to get at least one white one in the ones you pulled out

And in theory 1 could then be correct as answer as well because you might coincidentally pull a white one as your very first one as well...
(since the problem was obviously written in German on our exam the sense might've been gotten lost in the translation somehow)

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Those problems always seem unrealistic like

Who eats 36 chocolate bars in one go? Or even 70 percent of that which is like 10 of them I think. Idk, I'm not good at maths.
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lol, why would you be using a translated mathematics exam instead of one purely written in German? :p

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I too, was wondering this. ^

And yeah, math was never my favorite subject, but I was glad when I had to start dealing with much, much more complicated questions then those. The logic was just so twisted. xD





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Ahh, Probabilities/Statistics problems. It was never about the math you needed to do, the issue was always the way you interpreted the problem.
One single word, one single misplaced comma, and it becomes a whole different problem.

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One single word, one single misplaced comma, and it becomes a whole different problem.
Not only in math, but misplaced commas in grammar as well could mess up the meaning of a sentence :P

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Since were already talking about anomalies in English, how about other languages?

In German you're able to pretty much combine nouns, verbs, adjectives and so on almost with no restrictions with each other, sometimes leading to ones like Überschallgeschwindigkeitsflugzeug or Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.
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Khilia

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What in gotta name do either of those two words mean.
The first one literally means super sonic jet plane, the second can't be translated literally, but it refers to an sub-organization of the community of Donau (is a very long river in Europe) shipments in Wien (capital of Austria) before the first world war

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Since were already talking about anomalies in English, how about other languages?

In German you're able to pretty much combine nouns, verbs, adjectives and so on almost with no restrictions with each other, sometimes leading to ones like Überschallgeschwindigkeitsflugzeug or Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft.
internet hug to anyone who can read this out loud and fluently
Maybe I'll figure out how to say that in 18 months.

Khilia

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Some other examples:
Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesellschaft
Gleichgewichtsdichtegradientenzentrifugation
Elektrizitätswirtschaftsorganisationsgesetz
Verkehrswegeplanungsbeschleunigungsgesetz
Hochleistungsflüssigkeitschromatographie
Restriktionsfragmentlängenpolymorphismus
Telekommunikationsüberwachungsverordnung
Unternehmenssteuerfortentwicklungsgesetz

we have like tons of those and use them everyday like no big deal

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Some other examples:
Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesellschaft
Gleichgewichtsdichtegradientenzentrifugation
Elektrizitätswirtschaftsorganisationsgesetz
Verkehrswegeplanungsbeschleunigungsgesetz
Hochleistungsflüssigkeitschromatographie
Restriktionsfragmentlängenpolymorphismus
Telekommunikationsüberwachungsverordnung
Unternehmenssteuerfortentwicklungsgesetz

we have like tons of those and use them everyday like no big deal
My eyes... How do you even pronounce these?
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Khilia

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My eyes... How do you even pronounce these?
Let's just take the first one as example; Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung. In English you'd pronounce it sort of like Groond-shtuek-faer-kaehrs-gae-neh-mee-goongs-tsu-shtaen-dikh-kites-ueber-trahgoongs-far-ord-noong.

Or something.
note that any of the R's isn't spoken like the English one, rather like a Spanish or Slavic one
as well I tried to describe ü/ä/ö with ue/ae/oe because neither of these letters have a sound equivalent to them in English

Khilia

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Russian can be even worse then it comes to pronunciation, although it definitely doesn't have such long words; this is the longest official one: человеконенавистничество (chelovekonenavistnichestvo), which means misanthropy.

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Okay, clearly not going to take German anytime soon. O.O
Aber die meisten Wörter sind nicht so lang. Sie sind etwas eingefädelt, unnatürlich. Wie ein Zungenbrecher. Man will nicht in Alltagsleben diesen Wörter sprechen.

See what I mean? Most of the words aren't that hard.

Russian can be even worse then it comes to pronunciation, although it definitely doesn't have such long words; this is the longest official one: человеконенавистничество (chelovekonenavistnichestvo), which means misanthropy.
could you repeat that? I don't think I got that :p

Well in all seriousness it isn't that hard. Like antidisestablishmentarianism is pretty annoying, but you can break it down into anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism…

although Russian can have longer word roots on paper because of the whole soft-and-hard you need two letters for thing, but they're all pretty much the same length.
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Some other examples:
Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Verkehrsinfrastrukturfinanzierungsgesellschaft
Gleichgewichtsdichtegradientenzentrifugation
Elektrizitätswirtschaftsorganisationsgesetz
Verkehrswegeplanungsbeschleunigungsgesetz
Hochleistungsflüssigkeitschromatographie
Restriktionsfragmentlängenpolymorphismus
Telekommunikationsüberwachungsverordnung
Unternehmenssteuerfortentwicklungsgesetz

we have like tons of those and use them everyday like no big deal
OK. I want to learn German even more now... only 1 week left until my first class starts.

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