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  2. Littlewood's law - Wikipedia

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    The proof of the law is simple. During the time that we are awake and actively engaged in living our lives, roughly for 8 hours each day, we see and hear things happening at a rate of about one per second. So the total number of events that happen to us is about 30,000 per day, or about a million per month.

  3. If You Can Pass This Simple 10-Second Test, You’ll Probably ...

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    If you can balance on one leg for at least 10 seconds, rejoice! Chances are, you will outlive many of your peers. ... 10 seconds per leg, is all you need for the day. A word of caution though ...

  4. Poker probability - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, this is called odds against. For instance, with a royal flush, there are 4 ways to draw one, and 2,598,956 ways to draw something else, so the odds against drawing a royal flush are 2,598,956 : 4, or 649,739 : 1. The formula for establishing the odds can also be stated as (1/p) - 1 : 1, where p is the aforementioned probability.

  5. Mental chronometry - Wikipedia

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    Representation of the stages of processing in a typical reaction time paradigm. Mental chronometry is the scientific study of processing speed or reaction time on cognitive tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of mental operations.

  6. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The chance of winning can be demonstrated as follows: The first number drawn has a 1 in 49 chance of matching. When the draw comes to the second number, there are now only 48 balls left in the bag, because the balls are drawn without replacement. So there is now a 1 in 48 chance of predicting this number.

  7. Instant replay in Major League Baseball - Wikipedia

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    From announcement of the challenge to confirmation of the call, the process took 1 minute, 40 seconds, longer than MLB's hope of 60 to 90 seconds per review. Later that day, the first successful challenge took place when Atlanta Braves manager Fredi González challenged the call of a Ryan Braun single.

  8. Equalized odds - Wikipedia

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    Equalized odds, [1] also referred to as conditional procedure accuracy equality and disparate mistreatment, is a measure of fairness in machine learning. A classifier satisfies this definition if the subjects in the protected and unprotected groups have equal true positive rate and equal false positive rate, [ 2 ] satisfying the formula:

  9. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    5.4 × 10 83 Qs (1.7 × 10 106 years): The approximate lifespan of a supermassive black hole with a mass of 20 trillion solar masses [21] 10 10 10 76.66 {\displaystyle 10^{10^{10^{76.66}}}} Qs: The scale of an estimated Poincaré recurrence time for the quantum state of a hypothetical box containing an isolated black hole of stellar mass [ 22 ...