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Really? Didn't know that. Now there's two reasons for me to go on Warped Tour.

I really wish I could go to New York and meetup with you guys today. :( It sounds like you have a fun day planned.
 
That sounds like a surreal oppurtunity. Maybe when I'm 18 I'll go with you guys :)

As for Panic!, have you guys heard Miss Jackson?

Climbin' out the back door, didn't leave a mark / No one knows it's you Miss Jackson
Found another victim but no one's gonna find Miss Jackson Jackson~
 
So today we got back our math exams we wrote last week.
It had the following problem nobody knew the correct answer for:

An urn contains 24 spheres, 10 white and 14 black ones.
How much spheres would you need to pull out first to then have a certainty of 100% to pull a white one?

The answer was 15, because "you might have coincidentally pulled out all 14 black ones at first as well"

wat
 
KhiliaGro said:
So today we got back our math exams we wrote last week.
It had the following problem nobody knew the correct answer for:

An urn contains 24 spheres, 10 white and 14 black ones.
How much spheres would you need to pull out first to then have a certainty of 100% to pull a white one?

The answer was 15, because "you might have coincidentally pulled out all 14 black ones at first as well"

wat
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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.
 
No, no, no, no. The best worst math question ever would definitely be. . .:

John has 36 candy bars, he eats 70% of them. What does John have?

Merely because I have only ever met people who give the answer as 'Diabetes'.


When it comes to math, though, I'd love to try to solve one of the Smale's problems. . .
 
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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.
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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)
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
"I didn't said she stole my money"

If you put the stress on a different word, the whole meaning of the sentence changes as well
 
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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
 
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Dakota said:
What in gotta name do either of those two words mean.
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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
 
KhiliaGro said:
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
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Maybe I'll figure out how to say that in 18 months.
 
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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