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@hjhornbeck@freethought.online

2025-12-16 21:13 UTC

@alisonkiddle@mathstodon.xyz I'm in CompSci, so I already knew 2^10 = 1,024. I don't know my powers of six, but I do know 2*3 = 6, so I could break that down into 2^4 * 3^4. 2^4 = 16, and some squaring got me 3^4 = 9^2 = 81. So now it was down to calculating 16*81. I struggled with breaking up 16 or 81, and eventually settled on calculating 10*81 + 6*81. The first half is 810, the second half... 480 + something? 486. At that point, I realized 480 + 810 > 1,024, so there were more potential outcomes for rolling a dice four times. Thus the odds of getting one specific outcome was less, so flipping ten heads is more likely.

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