A 50/50 chance is an 100% chance.

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• Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty much correct. A 50% chance of A and a 50% chance of B equals a 100% chance of either A or B happening.

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• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Funny how many people in the comments don’t get the joke.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because it’s not a joke, it’s not even funny. It’s a simple mathematical thing which depends on a specific perspective.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Seems like you didn’t get the joke.

      The joke is a mathematical pun, purposely misunderstanding the “/” in “50/50” as a division sign instead of a separator.

      50/50 means, 50 of hundred fall on one side, 50 on the other.

      But in mathematical notation, 50 divided by 50 equals 1, and 1 is 100%.

      It’s just as much a joke as any other pun, just in mathematical notation instead of in a natural language.

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• Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More washing, less thinking!

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why are they booing, OP is right!

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• kip@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  pun-ctuation

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• masb@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  !weedtime@crazypeople.online

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even if you do it twice, it’s still not 100℅.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The joke is that they interpret the “/” as a division sign, not as a separator.

    So 50/50=1 and 1=100%.

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• johsny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No.

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You are on to something. But call it entropy, not chance.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_entropy_function

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