Out of Character
This is the out of character channel! Here you can ask the Game Masters questions, and have out of character conversations, which aren't related to the game!
Flute Apprentice13-Sep-21 02:04 PM
fist
Psychic Wolf13-Sep-21 06:11 PM
Firts
Pyromancer13-Sep-21 10:05 PM
flirts
Vampire14-Sep-21 08:48 AM
gaming
Wisp14-Sep-21 12:05 PM
mah bbb
Wisp14-Sep-21 09:40 PM
@Flute Player what is the chance a poll has 3 of the same letters?
as the code
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:40 PM
BBB
Flute Player14-Sep-21 09:41 PM
who knows
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:41 PM
Should be 26/999, right?
Wisp14-Sep-21 09:41 PM
wouldn't it be 1/26*3?
or are they not generated individually
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:41 PM
oh yeah
not 999
it's not numbers
Psychic Wolf14-Sep-21 09:42 PM
bbb
Wisp14-Sep-21 09:42 PM
11.5%
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:42 PM
26 / 26*3
so 1/26*2
Wisp14-Sep-21 09:43 PM
7.7% then
Medium14-Sep-21 09:43 PM
that seems too high
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:43 PM
time to write code to test it
Medium14-Sep-21 09:43 PM
its 3.8% for each letter (1/26)
so i doubt its 7.7% that all 3 are the same
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:44 PM
The math should just be 3 of the same outcomes / total outcomes
so there are 26 outcomes with the same 3 letters
and 26 * 26 * 26 total outcomes
Medium14-Sep-21 09:45 PM
0.1%
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 09:49 PM
Yes that's correct
Ethan I think you missed your order of operations
1 / (26 * 2)
Medium14-Sep-21 09:49 PM
well
thats the same as (1/26)^2
Flute Player14-Sep-21 10:27 PM
they arent calculated in a sane way at all
Pyromancer14-Sep-21 10:28 PM
system time instead of rng?
Flute Player14-Sep-21 10:35 PM
no
its based on the poll id
I've just checked 500k polls, 230000 of which were 3 characters long, 366 with just three characters that are all the same. So a 0.16% chance.
The math I did came out to 0.148%, so pretty close
Seems like you method may slightly favor triplicates
Flute Player14-Sep-21 10:40 PM
it probably does
the middle character has something with "a"
that might increase it's chance of being a
middle character seems to have a 28% chance of being a..?
this scales with the polls
I've only been checking the first 50 polls
in the first 500k polls the chance goes down to 6%, but that's not really relevant since we rarely go further than the first 50 polls
though even those 6% are still significantly more than it should be
I feel like this would mean that bbb is rare than expected
in 500k polls (10k of each of the first 50) I'm getting only 8 bbb's
A 0.0016% chance then
Flute Apprentice15-Sep-21 04:36 PM
Phone security concept: A lockscreen that doesn't have any valid codes to open it, but you can access the fake phone app and open the phone by dialing 911
or 112 if you're from here
White Werewolf15-Sep-21 05:02 PM
Lolol
Wisp15-Sep-21 09:12 PM
I wonder if there will ever be a game where daylight savings hits in the middle so one phase will be longer/shorter
Devil15-Sep-21 09:15 PM
we did actually have one!!
i believe it was last november
time change hit on the second day
Wisp15-Sep-21 09:17 PM
lol
Flute Apprentice16-Sep-21 12:27 PM
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Flute Apprentice17-Sep-21 12:18 PM
ah.
it's a quiz. slightly explicit though so be warned