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Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!
Keep trying to steer the focus of the conversation to anything else you can other than the fact that you were commenting on math posts you didn’t bother read.
Was your post about math or feelings?
If you had a count in mind, why didn't you post it?
If you didn't think he was applying the math correctly, why didn't you post it?
Could it be that you intended exactly what you wrote - that you FELT it should be different? To a textualist like me, I'll assume you meant what you wrote.
To be clear, I don't condemn that feeling at all. A big part of checking answers is our gut reaction. If he had said that removing QT dropped combos from 556 to 184, a quick gut check would reveal that I feel there are way too many combos to start with and that the differential is too big. I don't know exactly where his math went wrong, but I would steongly suspect the math is wrong. It doesn't pass the sniff test.
110 to 87 passes the sniff test. I didn't count the combos initially, to be honest I would have actually guessed like 130 (10%) but 110 feels right enough. And taking out two cards should reduce it by 20-30%. So 87 passes the sniff test and feels right too.
There's nothing unusual about the number being odd. I think if you took a bunch of random numbers and multiplied paira and then added them, you'd have at least a 25% chance of being odd (I might feel like it should be 50% but odd times odd is odd, odd times even is even, and even times even is even - prior to working it out, I can use my feelings to guide me to the approximate solution of 25-50%).
The real question isn't why I'm commenting on "math" posts. The question is whether you consider your post to be a math post.