hi to all,
 chances of  six heads in a row in twenty tosses
     6!/14! =  8.258936e-9
 my wife thinks. why so low? it is because you have to do it in sequence of
six.
00111111000000000000 is okay
01010101010100000000 is not

dennis profeta

VANCE,JEFF (HP-Cupertino,ex1) <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> (This is way off topic so please delete it now if you are not interested)
>
> My wife just took a biology test where one of the questions was:
>    "What is the probability of tossing 6 heads in a row out of 20 coin
> tosses?"
>
> I believe that the number of tosses (20) doesn't matter.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>