Run it again, it might work this time

Found the owners eventually but our goats have guests in the field overnight!

Even if you're on life support?

Trying to make people think they are a big writer and not *checks notes* the cuts financial advice columnist

Answer Spoiler if you are doing the course so be warned

N <- 10000
runCount <- 0
for(i in rnorm(N)){
if (i >= -1 & i <= 1){
runCount <- runCount + 1
}
}
ratio <- runCount/N
ratio

if i do it 1000 times i'd expect it to get to about 50/50. 1000000 times even more so.

with that using rnorm its expected to get a number between -1 and 1 68.2% of time

n=10 got .3
n=1000 got .693
n=100000 got .68099
n=10000000 got .6828726
n=1000000000 got .682669

First big thing is the law of large numbers, the more times you do something the more likely you can predict the results. So IF something is outta whack of the ordinary you can spot it. Like flipping a coin, if i do it twice it could be 2 heads or 100% but thats somewhat normal but...