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Old 09-27-05, 01:51 PM   #79
Vaskez
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of course someone will have an advantage, but simple probability favours the better battler the longer the verse is. Think about it. Say a good person has 80% chance of coming up with a good punch and a wack person has 30% chance. In a 1-punch battle wack person will win 0.3/(0.3+0.8) = with 27% chance. In a 5-punch (10 line) verse, chance of good person's whole verse being dope is (0.8)^5 = 0.32 (32%), wack person's whole verse being dope is (0.3)^5 = 0.002 (0.2%) chance. So wack person has only 0.2/(0.2+32) = 0.006 = 0.6% chance of winning, hehe. As you can see, the wack person's chance decreases with number of punches in the battle.

Of course this is all assuming it's possible to assing a probability to a person's punches being good and that percentage is accurate.

Of course in reality a dope person's chance of coming up with a dope punch is more like 50%(usually at most half are quoted) and a wack person's is like 20% (maybe 1 is quoted out of 5) so the odds aren't that different.

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