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Root Infinity

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« on: June 18, 2011, 07:58:13 pm »
What's the probability that you know someone on this forum without knowing it?

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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 08:02:23 pm »
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Hey, hey Mike, It's me, Jerry! Yea, don't think I'm just making up names, or it could be another Mike and Jerry, I'm talking to you. I know your reading this!
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« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 08:06:21 pm »
Jerry? What are you doing here? You have a lot of nerve showing up after what happened in Tijuana.
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« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 08:07:34 pm »
Hey, that girl scout attacked me! It was self defence!
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« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 08:07:53 pm »
Quote from: Fenrir on June 18, 2011, 08:06:21 pm
Jerry? What are you doing here? You have a lot of nerve showing up after what happened in Tijuana.

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Also, for me pretty likely. I've told so many Dwarf Fortress stories ever since I found it. Most people walk away if I even mention the word Dwarf or Fortress.
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« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 08:08:36 pm »
I would, at a very rough estimate, put it at about a 1 in 40,000 chance you know someone here without either of you being part of the reason the other is here.
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« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2011, 08:19:11 pm »
Seeing as three people in my country play DF (one of them is my cousing and the other is DJ) i think the chances are very very very slim.
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« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2011, 08:20:49 pm »
Quote from: Jopax on June 18, 2011, 08:19:11 pm
Seeing as three people in my country play DF (one of them is my cousing and the other is DJ) i think the chances are very very very slim.
Ok, now I'm interested. How can you know that for sure?
Do you live in the Vatican or something? Are... Are you the pope?
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« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2011, 08:24:41 pm »
There are 34,242 profiles signed up.

There are a bit under 7 billion people in the world.

so 20,000 people for every profile roughly.

However, when you narrow that down to people who have internet access and who speak english, then I would peg it at around 5,000 people per profile.

So if you know N people, then there is a (4,999/5,000)N chance of you not knowing someone.

I would estimate that I know roughly 400 people (350ish on facebook, and a fair few who are not on facebook)

So there is a 92.31% chance that I don't know any of you.

So there is a 7.69% chance that I know at least one of you.
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« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2011, 08:25:35 pm »
Hmm...
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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2011, 08:26:19 pm »
Quote from: ed boy on June 18, 2011, 08:24:41 pm
So there is a 7.69% chance that I know at least one of you.

Oh, god, it's me, isn't it? I always knew it would end like this!
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2011, 08:26:50 pm »
Well, simple way to do this.
Does anybody else live in Sydney?
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« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2011, 08:27:59 pm »
Quote from: Max White on June 18, 2011, 08:20:49 pm
Quote from: Jopax on June 18, 2011, 08:19:11 pm
Seeing as three people in my country play DF (one of them is my cousing and the other is DJ) i think the chances are very very very slim.
Ok, now I'm interested. How can you know that for sure?
Do you live in the Vatican or something? Are... Are you the pope?

And then Jopax was Pope.

In other news the chances of me knowing someone that plays DF in general is pretty slim, because I live in a town almost entirely populated by retirees who don't understand how to turn on the computer.
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« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2011, 08:31:35 pm »
Lets just say that this is the sort of country where WC3 and CS are still considered top of the gaming industry, where the gaming population is very low and rather backwards from what i've seen.

That said, no i do not think i am the Pope, unless it's some kind of disorder or something, like Lycanthropy or something.
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« Reply #14 on: June 18, 2011, 08:33:03 pm »
Quote from: Jopax on June 18, 2011, 08:31:35 pm
That said, no i do not think i am the Pope, unless it's some kind of disorder or something, like Lycanthropy or something.
And then Jopax was werewolf Pope.
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