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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Varven to c/minecraft

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Hi all! Today I am going to calculate what are the chances of every single egg in your inventory dropping 4 chickens. To find this out, we're going to need to determine the chances of an egg dropping 4 chickens, which is 1/256 (https://minecraft.wiki/w/Egg)).

Now let's take this to the extreme. Again, let's fill up all the shulkers in your inventory with eggs. So, a shulker box has 27 slots and eggs can stack up to 16, which means 16 x 27 = 432 Now, an inventory has 37 slots, so 432 x 37 = 15,984 Therefore a whole inventory can hold 15,984 eggs.

Now, going back to that first number: each egg has a chance of 1/256 of dropping 4 chickens. So now, here is our final answer: (1/256)15,984 =7.9433 \times 10^{-10232}

So, the chances of your whole inventory of eggs, including shulker boxes, spawning exactly 4 chickens is The final probability is 7.9433 x 10^{-10232} i would love to write this number in full, but I can't because it's so close to zero it would not fit on my damn screen. Now, if any of my calculations are wrong, please flex your PhDs down in the comments.

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[–] Varven 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You really don't get it do you the final number contains so many zeros that I have to format it like this 7.9433 x 10^{-10232} another words it has 10232 zeros and then after those zeros it goes 7.9433

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh no I wasn't criticizing your use of scientific notation. I was joking that I could do it even with such a low chance

[–] Varven 2 points 5 months ago

Oh my bad lol