Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@willf

willf/prob.md

Last active November 12, 2019 21:34
Show Gist options
  • Star 0 You must be signed in to star a gist
  • Fork 0 You must be signed in to fork a gist
  • Save willf/960ce54bab1ff5d3572f7fa5227363be to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Save willf/960ce54bab1ff5d3572f7fa5227363be to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
Probability of 200,000 people, each with 50,000 images, tripping a False Positive if thee FP rate is 1/10 billion
Raw
prob.md
Denominator False Positive
Rate		 Images People Chances
(Images*People)		 Prob of at least one FP
1-(1-p)^n
10,000,000,000 1E-10 50,000 200,000 1,000,000,000 63.2%
@willf
Copy link
Author

willf commented Nov 12, 2019

Used Excel, didn't look into floating point error ...

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment