I put this to my
Maths
genius friend and occasional TRF poster –
becher’s chair
.
After thinking about it, he said
"I believe it would be impossible to get a full exact answer because in a game of tennis you could keep returning to deuce infinitely, so you can’t get one answer."
Statisticians and mathematicians are different. A mathematician (male of course!) was taken into a room where there was a very attractive woman standing with her back against the far wall. The mathematician was told he could advance toward her, but in each move he could only halve the distance between them. He said it would be a waste of time since he would never reach her, and he left the room. A statistician (female this time) was taken into a room where there was a very attractive man standing with his back against the far wall. She was told she could advance toward him, but in each move she could only halve the distance between them. She said: "Great, for all practical purposes, I will eventually get near enough."
For all practical purposes, the odds will limit out at approximately 35.5 to 1.