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  2. Orders of magnitude (probability) - Wikipedia

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    1.4×10 −3: Probability of a human birth giving triplets or higher-order multiples [18] Probability of being dealt a full house in poker 1.9×10 −3: Probability of being dealt a flush in poker 2.7×10 −3: Probability of a random day of the year being your birthday (for all birthdays besides Feb. 29) 4×10 −3: Probability of being dealt ...

  3. Probability - Wikipedia

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    Probability is the branch of mathematics and statistics concerning events and numerical descriptions of how likely they are to occur. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1; the larger the probability, the more likely an event is to occur. [note 1] [1] [2] This number is often expressed as a percentage (%), ranging from 0% to ...

  4. Contract bridge probabilities - Wikipedia

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    So, the likelihood of being dealt a 12-19 HCP hand (ranges inclusive) is the probability of having at most 19 HCP minus the probability of having at most 11 HCP, or: 0.9855 − 0.6518 = 0.3337. [ 2 ] HCP

  5. Outline of probability - Wikipedia

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    The certainty that is adopted can be described in terms of a numerical measure, and this number, between 0 and 1 (where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty) is called the probability. Probability theory is used extensively in statistics , mathematics , science and philosophy to draw conclusions about the likelihood of potential ...

  6. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics – Poker: The odds of being dealt a straight flush (other than a royal flush) in poker are 72,192 to 1 against, for a probability of 1.4 × 10 −5 (0.0014%). Mathematics – Poker: The odds of being dealt a four of a kind in poker are 4,164 to 1 against, for a probability of 2.4 × 10 −4 (0.024%).

  7. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    This means that the probability of correctly predicting 2 numbers drawn from 49 in the correct order is calculated as 1 in 49 × 48. On drawing the third number there are only 47 ways of choosing the number; but we could have arrived at this point in any of 49 × 48 ways, so the chances of correctly predicting 3 numbers drawn from 49, again in ...

  8. Probability theory - Wikipedia

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    This is the same as saying that the probability of event {1,2,3,4,6} is 5/6. This event encompasses the possibility of any number except five being rolled. The mutually exclusive event {5} has a probability of 1/6, and the event {1,2,3,4,5,6} has a probability of 1, that is, absolute certainty.

  9. Checking whether a coin is fair - Wikipedia

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    (Note: r is the probability of obtaining heads when tossing the same coin once.) Plot of the probability density f(r | H = 7, T = 3) = 1320 r 7 (1 − r) 3 with r ranging from 0 to 1. The probability for an unbiased coin (defined for this purpose as one whose probability of coming down heads is somewhere between 45% and 55%)