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What is the lowest acceptable probability number beyond which it would considered impossible?
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Answer 1: Borel's Law tells us that anything with a probability less than 1 in 1050 is "mathematically impossible." Leslie Orgel calculated that any event that has one chance in just 10^50 (1 followed by 50 zeros) is dismissed by mathematicians as never happening. Mathematician William Dembski's calculations can be summed up with the following simplification of the primary principle: "If you roll a 6 sided die, one time, what are the chances that you will roll a 7 or higher?" The correct answer is that it's impossible. Thus, the resulting number can not exceed the afforded chances.
Answer 2: An impossible event is if there is a 0% chance of it occurring. If you were to flip a coin until you got 'cheese' as a result, then there is a 0% chance, it is not possible.
Above 0, nothing is impossible, they just have greater and greater degrees of improbability. Tossing 25 coins and getting 10 heads in a row for example is 1/33554432 or 0.00000298% which sounds impossible. But if you got 33,554,432 people to simultaneously flip 25 coins each, in theory one person should get 25 heads.
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