The same four capsules in the same four
colours,
branded to Regent, Illinois
out of Quindao, China.
Last time I wondered out loud how they
might be distributed, given the listing wasn't divisible by four, the answer
is; randomly! No duplicates with Mr. B's four; but a duplicate within the pack,
along with a mammal!
Now there is a way of calculating how many
'things' you need to buy to find all of a random sample, but A) I can't recall
the formula, and B) it was a one-of-so-many formula, not an in-fours-of-so-many,
so I don't know how to calculate it, but assuming a totally random distribution
of the 16 listed poses, I recon maybe six or eight packs?
Tries to work it out in his head . . . we
have one duplicate in 8 eggs, so 16 eggs may be assumed to have two duplicates,
so a fifth pack must be bought, but we know from the two packs so far opened
that there's a 50/50 chance of another duplicate, so you should (technically) need six packs
(24 eggs) to [theoretically] find the 16 sculpts?
As they are stumpy-legged micro-erasers,
you wouldn't want to, so it's a purely mental exercise, but I needed some sort
of blurb for what is a duplicate post!
Thank you again Mr. Berke!
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