Now that's helpful. Thanks.
"Kevin Karplus" <karplus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 2005-09-04, Fakename <fakename@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> If you toss 100 coins, what's the probability of getting 5 (either
heads
>> or
>> tails in a row)? 6 in a row?
>> How do you figure it out?
>
> I believe the answer you are looking for can be found on
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Run.html
> which I found by googling
> probability runs
>
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