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Hey,

So i have a playlist of about 1500 different cartoons... so the ods of me seeing the same one in the span of 24 hours is...

20 minutes / episode
3600 minutes / day
30000 minutes (500 hours) of total playlist time

how many episodes can play in a day?
3600 (minutes/day) / 20 (minutes/episode) = 180 episodes/day

odds that 1 specific episode will be played
20 (minutes/episode) / 30000 (playlist time) * 100% = 0.066%

odds that, that episode will be played once within 24 hours
0.00066/180 * 100% = 0.00036%

I attempted to do the math required to figure out 2 episodes in the same day, but got confused >< but as you can see the chance that your specific episode gets played once within that time frame is very low, and would be even lower (by a few magnitudes). Is there a way to make it... well more random xD?

Thanks
~Cody Woolaver

Well, I am afraid that you need to help us code.

I'm afraid your third formula is in error. For any given episode to play in one day (assuming 24 hour uptime and exactly 20 minutes per episode) would be:

0.00066 (chance of that episode playing) * 72 (number of episodes played in a day) = 4.752%

Hope that helps.