The Powder Toy

gaussian distribution by TheLegolas

TheLegolas
TheLegolas
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22nd Sep 2018
24th Sep 2018
the chance for a water drop to reach the leftmost row is 1/(2^n), where n is the number of stages, 16 in this case, so the chance is 0.0000156. UPDATE: To see the mechanism, turn deco off!
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Comments

  • TheLegolas
    TheLegolas     4th Oct 2018
    oh my, i forgot to credit Gauss
  • basiliotornado
    basiliotornado     26th Sep 2018
    a drop made it to the very last one before the second to last one
  • MoistNapkin
    MoistNapkin     25th Sep 2018
    welp it took 40 mins but one of them finally reached the last row
  • SuperJohn
    SuperJohn     25th Sep 2018
    cool logo
  • RussianCosmonaut
    RussianCosmonaut     23rd Sep 2018
    Good +1
  • wisecase2
    wisecase2     23rd Sep 2018
    the probability it is (2^-m)*m!/(n!*(m-n)!), m is the total number of stages and n is stage location.
  • PortalPlayer
    PortalPlayer     23rd Sep 2018
    is a joke guys; calm down
  • VIBR
    VIBR     23rd Sep 2018
    It's not impossible, so it's not literally impossible, you mean statistically impossible, and even then it's not as it will happen within a feasable amount of time (66.6 minutes). Maybe if it was 66.6 years it would be statistically impoossible
  • TheLegolas
    TheLegolas     23rd Sep 2018
    if you would release just one particle, it would be "literally" impossible, i.e. you would need to do that incredibly often to have success.
  • TheLegolas
    TheLegolas     23rd Sep 2018
    portalplayer that's incorrect. 0.01 means 1%. In this save, every second approx. 25 drops are released, so it takes 4 seconds to release 100 particles. The probability 0.0000156 means, on average every hour (66.6 minutes) a particle will reach the leftmost row. But it could happen "first try", too.