sweetNsmartBBW
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I know...not a Domme here, and it's not exactly to do with what the OP said, but instead relates more to the mathematics of whether or not a person will find the one they search for (giving credit where it's due, this was authored by Fred Cuellar): HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU HAVE TO MEET IN ORDER TO FIND YOUR SOUL-MATE? While this seems like the hardest question of all, it was always the easiest. The answer is 23. Well at least 23 to have a decent shot; you know, at least a 50/50 chance. While this number may seem extremely small to you, the producers of all the reality TV shows already know this fact. That's why the Bachelor and Bachelorette of reality TV always start off with 25 people to pick from (they rounded 23 to 25), because they want at least an even money shot at true love. Why 23? Simple. It's based on an old math puzzle called "The Birthday Paradox” which asks, "How many people do you have to put in a room before you have a 50/50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday?” The answer is 23. All of you non-mathematicians can scroll to the bottom of this article to read the explanation of "The Birthday Paradox.” Let's continue. Go ask any married couple how many people they had to date before they found their true love. Go ahead, ask anybody. I guarantee that nobody will give you an answer larger than 365. See the correlation? 365 days in the year, 365 dates, max, to find true love. Using the Birthday Paradox, we can turn the very complicated question of love and soul-mates into a numbers game. Go out with 23 people; pick them carefully. At the end of the process, one half of you will be married. Don't believe me? Go see. Two more things to remember: 1) Almost 1/3 of all men will never marry and almost 1/4 of all women will never marry. Marriage doesn't necessarily equal happiness. 2) Before anyone is ever going to fall in love with you, you'd better be in love with yourself. If you can't sell yourself to you, then why should anyone else bother? Last question: What element does chance play? If you ask the romantics; none—it's all destiny! THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX By Dave Reitzes Just how likely is it that, in a group of people, two of them will have the same birthday? To simplify this question a bit, let's ignore leap years and assume that each year has 365 days. If there are two people in a room, the odds of having the same birthday are one in 365.* The probability is therefore 0.0027. That's pretty unlikely. Suppose you have three people in the room: A, B and C. There are three possibilities for two of them to have the same birthday. A and B might. A and C might. Or B and C might. What is the probability that two of the three will have the same birthday? We have to start by noting that the probability of A and B not having the same birthday is 364/365 = 0.99726. Thus the probability of A and B not having the same birthday and B and C also not having the same birthday is .99726 x .99726 = 0.994528. And it follows that the probability of A and B not having the same birthday and B and C also not having the same birthday and A and C not having the same birthday is .99726 x .99726 x .99726 = 0.9918. Following this logic, when there are five people in the room there are ten possibilities for two of them to have the same birthday (4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10), and if there are six people in the room there are 15 possibilities (5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 15). In this latter case (six people in the room), the probability of none of the six having the same birthday is: (364/365)15 = 0.959683 Therefore there are about four chances in a hundred that at least two of the people will have the same birthday. Since the number of possibilities of two people having the same birthday increases roughly as the square of the number of people, the probability of at least two having the same birthday rises rapidly as the number in the room increases. With 20 people in the room, there are 190 opportunities for two people having the same birthday. The probability that no two will is: (364/365)190 = 0.59377 Repeating the analysis with 30 people, the probability is: (364/365)435 = 0.30318 In other words, the odds are only three in ten that no two people will have the same birthday.
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