{"id":1383,"date":"2019-04-18T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2019-04-18T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:02:11","slug":"follow-up-i-found-two-identical-packs-of-skittles-among-468-packs-with-a-total-of-27740-skittles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/1383","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d832ea4f8f6\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d832ea4f8f6\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>1383"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/possiblywrong.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/06\/follow-up-i-found-two-identical-packs-of-skittles-among-468-packs-with-a-total-of-27740-skittles\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2019\/04\/skittles_defect.png\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2019\/04\/skittles_defect.png 652w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2019\/04\/skittles_defect-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">This is a follow-up to a post from earlier this year discussing the likelihood of encountering two identical packs of Skittles, that is, two packs having exactly the same number of candies of each flavor. Under some reasonable assumptions, it was estimated that we should expect to have to inspect \u201conly about 400-500 packs\u201d on average until encountering a first duplicate.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[14289,14323,16398],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-consumption","tag-mathematics","tag-skittles","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}