Re: School Math Project


Peter Bone wrote:
> A fairly simple problem is to work out the probability of a random
> sequence of numbers of a given period being a valid siteswap. p!/p^2


That can't be right. The numerator is asymptotically greater than the
denom. So, for example 5!/(5^2) = 120/25 = 24 for period 5. Obviously,
there is a problem there :)

If the top is p!, the only likely thing I could think of for the bottom
would be p^p. 120/3125 = .0384 seems fairly likely, I guess.

-andy

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