Submitted by Reason-Local t3_11de5ag in explainlikeimfive
berael t1_ja8t6xk wrote
The 1st time you roll a 6 sided die, you have a 1/6 chance to roll a 6.
The 100th time you roll, you still have a 1/6 chance because it's still a 6-sided die.
The 100000000th time you roll, you still have a 1/6 chance to roll a 6 because it's still a 6-sided die.
If you have rolled four 6s in a row, then on the 5th roll you have a 1/6 chance to roll a 6, because it's still a 6-sided die. Completely apart from that, the chance of rolling five 6s in a row is 1/7776, because there are 7775 other possible combinations for those five rolls.
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