Comment by Bipin_krish on 09/03/2025 at 09:07 UTC*

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View submission: Indian skipper Rohit Sharma equals Brian Lara’s unwanted record of 12 consecutive toss losses in ODIs. Meanwhile, Team India extends its streak to 15 tosses lost in a row.

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It's the same probability for anyone with 12 tosses having any results in any order

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Comment by 7--_--__-_--_7 at 09/03/2025 at 09:09 UTC*

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Yes but we don't care for them, as they don't seem unique in general

Comment by CheapSuccotash3128 at 09/03/2025 at 09:12 UTC

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But chances of not winning a single won are 1/4096

Comment by fiddler013 at 09/03/2025 at 11:12 UTC

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Yes. But think of it as an entropy problem.

This is a very ordered set of events. It’s a low entropy event.

A similar event in a very high variable system is all of air ending up in one half of the box.

Different information content between a number of heads and losses without any order. Or with some kind of order.

We study Black Holes with the same metric for the uninitiated.

Comment by Bonker__man at 09/03/2025 at 16:29 UTC

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Yeah but like ℙ (Heads = 1,2,3,...,11) > ℙ (Heads = 0)