I have a question about math

Hello and welcome to the forums.

We cannot tell you the real odds because:

1) We don't know what is being descrbied, and

2) Even if we did know, we are not mathematicians

But if something has a 1 in 3 million chance of happening, it's very unlikely. Do you need more precision than that?

I know that an odds can not be bigger than 1. So I think that it is a special number that is strongly close to 1. In my opinion, I think that if we substract 1 in 3 million from 1, we will get the number described by author. But I dont know if there exist any of these expressions. Thank you

Take 1/3,000,000, that will be the odds. It's like picking the right key for a new car from a gigantic swimming pool with 3 million keys in it. No one can be more accurate than that.

Hi,

If the odds is 3 million to one, how do get 3,127,648 to 1 ?.

Hi,

It was my guess.

Clive

The sentence is "the odds are higher than 3 million to 1".

It should be at least 3,000,001 chances to 1 because the odds are higher than 3 million.

Well, I would say the likelihood is 0.9999996667. So, it's extremely likely to occur. Hence the title of the book I guess.

EDIT: For some reason my numbers are refusing to display properly. It should be 0.(six 9's and three 6's and one 7)

How do you figure that? You need some new batteries, or your math teacher had a problem.

Well, no need to be rude O.o. First of all, the answer most definitely is not 1/3,000,000, like you stated in your earlier post. The phrasing itself clearly says the odds are 'higher' than 3 million in 1. Now, moving swiftly onwards, the probability of something occurring with a 3 million in 1 chance is 1/3,000,000. If the probability is higher, then it's 1 minus 1/3,000,000, since 1 is absolute c