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Old 5th December 2005, 10:05 AM
Winston_Smith Winston_Smith is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jfc
If you accept places as 1st, 2nd or 3rd, then for a field of N:

Expected Win = 1/N

Expected place = 3/N
just so I got this correct. in a field of 10 then
expected win = 1/10 = 10%
expected place = 3/10 = 30%
so i have 10% chance to win and 30% chance to place?
Thank you. Winston.
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