>enemy has 1/100 chance of dropping a ring >kill it 100

>enemy has 1/1024 chance of dropping important crafting material
>kill it once
>get the material
>don't have crafting skills
>sell it to random npc

What is probability. There's only a 1 percent chance to drop every time it dosnt matter how many times you kill it

>>386075582
Actually the odds are 50%, you either get the ring or you don't

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>>386075930

>>386075582
yes but if you kill it a million times then it's very likely that you will acquire somewhere close to 10,000 rings

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>>386075582
>enemy has 1/100 chance of dropping a ring
>kill it 50 times
>get the ring

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>enemy move has a 50% chance to hit
>reduce their accuracy by 50%
>they still hit

>>386075582
>What is the Law of Big Numbers?
retard

>read horror stories about pire bladestone in demons souls
>get it within 10 minutes

get rekt rngesus

>>386076739
no, you'd get 50 million rings because it is 50/50

>>386075582
Dumb frog thread being dumb, nothing to see here.

>>386077051
imma fuck you with a rake

>>386075582
I'm okay with regular math and physics but i'm such a fucking retard with statistics. It took me forever to kind of 'get' the simple dice bag and problems like these in Stats 101, and 3 years later I'm back to thinking this post makes a reasonable complaint.

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>>386077051
I got the Black Knight Sword from the very first one in the game and used it the entire game until I beat it and never bothered to learn the crafting