Sentence examples for outcome chances from inspiring English sources

If e-book prices plummet as a result of the lawsuit — one possible outcome — chances are the financial impact on Apple will be small.

The NFL can't help that the time difference between the UK and United States mean that the Super Bowl begins close to midnight, and if you want to see the outcome, chances are you won't make the early train into work the following morning.

Drawing as we did above (§2.1.2) on the language of statistical testing, we can characterise the random sequences as those which are not significant with respect to the hypothesis that the outcome chances are (p, 1 − p)—those which, as it were, conform to our prior expectations based on the underlying chances.

There is loose talk of a repeat of the generals' so-called "soft coup" in 1997, when they managed to lever Turkey's first Islamist-led government out of power.Yet although some in America might be tempted to welcome such an outcome, the chances of its happening remain tiny.

Much the same point could have been made, of course, with reference to any algorithm which may be fed an input chosen by chance, and so may produce an outcome by chance, but where the output is highly compressible.

1000 total LOC 100% executed 1 error per 1000 lines 10% chance that a given error meaningfully changes the outcome 50% chance that a consequent erroneous result is plausible Here the probability of a wrong output is 5%.

20% executed 10 errors per 1000 lines 10% chance that a given error meaningfully changes the outcome 10% chance that a consequent erroneous result is plausible 100,000 total LOC (neglecting trusted components such as the Linux kernel).

20% executed 10 errors per 1000 lines 10% chance that a given error meaningfully changes the outcome 10% chance that a consequent erroneous result is plausible So, we expect that two errors changed the output of this program run, so the probability of a wrong output is effectively 100%.

"It's a good outcome by chance, by one person being an advocate," says Dyson.

They become fatalistic, attribute the outcome to chance and neglect to prepare properly.

Not content to leave the outcome to chance, he's been campaigning vocally in swing states, shouting "Be a boy! Be a boy!" at his mother's bump.