mistercrayon wrote:In a single frame of snooker what is the smallest score you can get potting all the balls in a single legal break?
There isn't a smallest real or irrational number above zero (if there was - what about half of it)?davyK wrote:It's to do with the mapping as far as I'm aware, and that the number of balls is countable and is expressed as an integer. It's only when you look at say the set of real numbers that you get into a different level of infinity (aleph-1 I think?) which is uncountably infinite. For example start at 0 in a set of reals. What comes next? 0.000- 00.1 or something like that.
acemuzzy wrote:Surely all reds in one shot, then a yellow, then the colours (but you have to include the black for it to be legal)? So 15 + 2 + 27 = 44?
mistercrayon wrote:Also, maths thread is no place for frivolities such as real world considerations. Tell him muzz!
Birdorf wrote:i presume you snooker fans watched this, but I'll mention it just in case. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03bv0t5/the-rack-pack
acemuzzy wrote:P(white left) = P(white left | white to start) x P(white to start) + P(white left | black to start) x P(black to start) = 1 x P(white to start) + 1/2 x (P(white to start) = P + 1/2 (1-P) = 1/2 + P/2 ? maybe I don't get how you can answer the original question without knowing the probability of there having been a black or white to start, anyway... but may have got my sums wrong...
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