Sentence examples for finite chance from inspiring English sources

At other institutions, a candidate is interrogated endlessly by an international committee of experts, and there is a small but finite chance the candidate will fail.

With each new instant that time brings, there's a finite chance that inflation will end, but an even better chance that it will continue on, farther into the future.

At the same time, your position has a probability of spreading out, and while there's a finite chance that you'll wind up closer to the valley than you would have otherwise, there's also a chance that you'll wind up further up the hill than you started.

If you were to perform this same experiment with a quantum particle, you'd find, quite surprisingly, that there was a finite chance that it would tunnel through to the other side of the table, going through the barrier as if it were no obstacle at all.

If there are two airplanes in the sky at the same time, there is a finite chance that they will collide with each other.

(This number deviates from unity and trends upwards with number of flagella simply because of the finite probability that two tumbles overlap by chance).

There is a finite probability that multiple plants have the same multilocus genotypes, through chance or relatedness, which could result in erroneously assigned insertions when the inflorescence and pollinium have the same genotype.

Such patients may survive for some time, and have a finite (albeit small) chance of spontaneous or treatment-induced improvement in consciousness.

Pascal's guiding insight is that the argument from expectation goes through equally well whatever your probability for God's existence is, provided that it is non-zero and finite (non-infinitesimal) — "a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss".[4] This is finite.[6] By premise 3, rationality requires you to perform the act of maximum expected utility.

Terrorists have forced us to accept that any activity associated with living in a free society now carries with it a finite, and microscopically small, chance of tragic horror.

It is de rigueur these days to pick apart every football match, to analyse the missed chance in finite detail and slow down the slow-mo of the goal at the corner, in order to draw a grand conclusion: he's not good enough, they don't care, what do they do on the training ground, they're only in it for the money.