# More fun with pure math

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-fun-with-pure-math/27969>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 3, 2000, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-fun-with-pure-math/27969 "2000-08-03T08:23:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-fun-with-pure-math/27969/21 "2000-08-04T20:34:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Lance Turbo \*  
> \*\*So, after flipping an infinite number of coins, the most likely outcome is that you’ll have a 50/50 ratio of heads to tails, and this outcome has zero probabilty of occurring.
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> Makes sense to me. \*\*

Even in the gaussian distribution, the good ol’ bell curve, the most likely outcome is the average, but like every other single value, the actual probability is zero.

Of course, the binomial approximates the bell curve as 2n gets very large.

Even more weird, the most likely outcome of the famous drunkard’s walk is…right back where you started.

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