For Inquisitor, et al: What is Evolution?

Just noticed this statistics problem for the first time, I'll give it a shot.Here's the general solution for n, just do the math to find the answers for 10, 20 and ∞ darts: To find how many darts you must have to be within 99% of the value for ∞ darts, simply solve this equation for n: The term for ∞ goes to 0, so this becomes simply: That's the answer, but I don't know how to solve the equation.--Percy

This particular part is too elemenary for that, I just wrote it down off the top of my head. I could break it down for you, but why don't we let someone who's figuring it out for the first time do that? This isn't the interesting part of the problem anyway. The original hint you provided explains why. Oh, you're right! Isn't that interesting. I still don't know how to solve the equation. For example, I don't know how to find log(1-1/n). Just by inspection it looks like n is less than 20, though.You originally introduced the problem in a reply to Daddy's Message 38 where he was talking about zero chances in a kajilion. Can you tie your probability problem back into the misconception Daddy was experiencing? I think that would be pretty helpful.--PercyPS - Your problem showed up a bug in MathCad, which believes the expression for P_∞ goes to 0.