As you guessed, though, Eric, the sentence is not idiomatic English. The problem is the sequence "obtain an E will happen"; it would be more idomatic to say "obtain an E once in seven tries", or "the chances of getting an E are one in seven". On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 8:05 PM Éric Angelini <bk263401@skynet.be> wrote:
Indeed Tom -- I forgot "just": « Randomly draw a letter in this sentence and obtain an E will happen just once in seven. » Thank you for your sharp eye!-)
Le 9 décembre 2019 à 02:00, Tom Karzes <karzes@sonic.net> a écrit :
I count 66 letters in the first example.
Tom
Éric Angelini writes:
Hello Math-Fun, I don’t know if the hereunder words write a good and fluid English sentence, but you’ll get the idea:
« Randomly draw a letter in this sentence and obtain an E will happen once in seven. »
There are indeed 10 E’s and 70 letters altogether. This kind of sentence is easy to build (said my friend Pascal S. from Switzerland), but what would the English word-numbers Y and Z be here:
« The odds of picking at random the four letters F, O, U, R in this sentence and in that order are Y out of Z. »
Best, É.
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