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Imagine a gym open 18 hours a day. I go to the gym 1 hour a day, and someone I want to avoid goes 1 hour a day.
Then imagine this person to avoid is extremely irregular and can show up anytime from the first hour to the last.
Therefore, if I go everyday at the same time, 7pm, it is certain that I will see them because eventually our times will match...
Whereas if I go at a different time each day, there is only ever a 1 / 18 chance of seeing them, and I could conceivably go 6 months without running into them?
So the best strategy is a totally randomised schedule ?
Then imagine this person to avoid is extremely irregular and can show up anytime from the first hour to the last.
Therefore, if I go everyday at the same time, 7pm, it is certain that I will see them because eventually our times will match...
Whereas if I go at a different time each day, there is only ever a 1 / 18 chance of seeing them, and I could conceivably go 6 months without running into them?
So the best strategy is a totally randomised schedule ?
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Well anyone with a little brain would change gym
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but i dont have a little brain
mine is large and powerful |
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Mansini
You into drugs now ? |
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LOL @Luloo.
The true chance is the same for both scenarios isn't it? |
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i like my gym and the girls who work at the front desk
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Just because they serve black coffee?
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Who's this character you want to avoid ?
Your bookmaker ? |
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yes 1 of them is black
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nah someone i used to be friends with but now i dont want to see her again so i didnt tell her im back in the city
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anyway enough of this interrogation
how are YOU frog? |
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Very jumpy today.
Also feeling a bit green. |
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Do you see yourself as a bit of a stud Mansini?
A Latin American gigolo perhaps ? |
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i have to pay my gambling debts somehow
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FAFH
Green is better than red! [;)] |
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But as Kermit said " It's hard to be green ".
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Wait in the carpark until they leave
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Funny, found this when I searched on google. It was in a chat room:
My local gym is open 18 hours a day. I try to go around an hour a day but now this guy who moved away is back and goes to the gym around an hour a day. Since finding out he's back, I've been varying my hours as much as possible so to avoid him. The other night I arrived at 7 and had to leave when I saw him going in. This is a real pain but this guy is one to avoid. |
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LMansini,
As Trevh said, the answer to your question is that it doesn't make any difference when you go (assuming that the person to be avoided really is going at random times). Just stick to your favoured time. Of course, it's actually very unlikely that there isn't some sort of pattern to her attendance. |
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Gur reaction is that it wouldn't matter.
But given there are fixed end points ie. opening and closing time, would this effect the analysis, since there can be no overlapping situation... unless you're assuming one can only start a session on the hour, and not go in from say 7.32 to 8.32? |
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Mansini,
Go when the gym opens or 1 hour before the gym closes. This will minimize your chances of meeting this person. Because this minimizes the potential overlap. |
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Very good pxb!
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Wear a wig and fake moustache
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day 1, so far so good
 top answer goes to PXB frog hair.. do you honestly believe it should be illegal for girls 18-23 to have sex? weird  |
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As others say: Odds of both scenarios are identical unless the other person wants to make sure he goes every hour, or has a shift pattern or something else that would make him rotate hours in a way that ensures he covers all hours, or there is something else about the hours, not in the question, that makes his usage 'not actually random'.
The best answer is to get over your ex boyfriend so seeing him in his sweaty muscle shirt doesn't hurt so much  . |
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not gonna happen
when i see his muscles pulsating, lifting, 1, 2, 3..ooh spot me.. oh no you know hot it is, im sure |
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if they are truely independent events then it is better if you randomise your entry.
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Zola
You're definitely one of the stats expers on here, and your reply has enmboldened me to say something that was worrying me about pxb's reply earlier, which found general endorsement on here. If ( say) you divide the gym day into ( say) 8 one hour sessions. Then if both parties go on a random basis, they would have a 1/64 th chance of overlapping. If however one always go within a set 2 hr window( that either 1 hr before closing or at the opening), and the other still goes randomly, wouldn't they then have a 1/16 th of overlapping. That is it would become more likely, not less likely. Am I correct, or am I getting it hopelessly wrong, as usual ? |
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dont be modest frog
the night is young its only 7 here |
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Got that perfumed gel in your hair yet for your hot date tonight ? Also slip a tube of it into your pocket for the planned action later.
Also, don't forget to stack your wallet with you know what ? And whatever you do, don't go near the gym tonight. |
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ive already been to the gym today
went at 3pm..figuring if shes workign, her lunch break would be 1-2 shrewd wallet = stacked 2 credit cards = ready |
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the highest denomination u can get from the machine here is 10 000 pesos
thats like 12 pounds ive got 84 in my wallet. STACKED. |
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Don't blame us if you're found lying in a gutter, out cold and with your wallet and your girl gone.
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always so paranoid frog
remember when u were terrified of those girls in mexico? u gotta relax more im a pro 2 years ago it could have happened, now, no chance  |
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Maybe I'm talking from experience ?
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hmm
how old are you? im 27 |
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Let me just say that I would think that I have pulled a few more chicks than you have so far.
Of course I cheated a bit on that, by living in Thailand for a number of years, pre-AIDS. |
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the aids girls are all in eastern europe now
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They're everywhere where money is to be made from sex. Don't kid yourself
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dont worry
the blonde white girls here have no diseases its just the dark natives from up north, peru and bolivia no racism implied |