A friend was eating very quickly, and I said something along the lines of 'wolfing down her meal'.
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A friend was eating very quickly, and I said something along the lines of 'wolfing down her meal'.
She had never heard of that phrase, and the moment I said it, it felt wrong.
Do you remember in school when someone said 'intensive purposes' or 'I literally died' because we didn't understand whatwe were saying?
Is wolfing food the same thing? Am I confoosing it for something else?
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A friend was eating very quickly, and I said something along the lines of 'wolfing down her meal'.
She had never heard of that phrase, and the moment I said it, it felt wrong.
Do you remember in school when someone said 'intensive purposes' or 'I literally died' because we didn't understand whatwe were saying?
Is wolfing food the same thing? Am I confoosing it for something else?
@book on the one hand, I have definitely heard and read it, and I would have used the expression. On the other, I am not a native English speaker so take my experience with a grain of salt
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After reading up on this a bit I can semi-confidently say that this branching process with d6s will continue infinitely. The highest chance of it terminating is of course in the first or second roll, but after that chances of terminating become infinitesimally small.
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@oblomov @mcc @grumpygamer hi! It seems like you've stumbled upon the lovely mathematical genre of problem called 'branching processes' and 'extinction probabilities'. I don't know how to calculate this, but I can show you where to look.
Tbis Reddit post had a similar idea to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/jH1LzTXROe
This is the wiki page on branching processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching_process?wprov=sfla1
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@stefano also, for convenience, the overview page:
