"Nothing is perfect."
I would like to prove that statement wrong. Take my Halo 3 speedrunning for example.
Level: Cortana
Difficulty: Easy
P(getting the first door right)=9/10
P(getting the first GM right)=8.5/10
P(landing on the 2nd platform after the jump down...)=7/10
P(getting ALL subsequent slide jumps before the next door perfect)=4/10
P(getting the 2 slide jumps before 3rd GM right)=9/10
P(getting 4th GM sub-2.45)=3/10
P(getting the complicated 3-level bruteshot climbing right)=6/10
P(saving Cortana sub 4.49)=1.5/10
P(destroying all 3 reactors and having door open sub-5.50)=3/10
P(jumping into the place where tank form comes out from perfectly)=9/10
P(getting last bruteshot jump perfect)=8/10
P(not screwing the final 10 seconds of the run)=9.5/10
P(not dying on Easy...=_=)=8.5/10
P(not getting pushed away by some enemy, monster, or being on the receiving side of a particular glitch or bug in the game)=7/10
I guess that pretty sums up a perfect run of Cortana.
P(running Cortana SP Easy PERFECTLY)=0.0006355065956 (thank you, Casio fx-82AU!!!)
(Proven)
it just means doing something really good/perfect isn't improbable, just very difficult. As you all can see, probability of running Cortana SP Easy perfectly is less than 159 tries out of a quarter of a million. It's just the probabilities that drives people nuts.
It depends on luck too.
Let's say, someone's P(jumping 200cm in a SBJ)=9/10. He is given 3 tries to jump 200 cm.
He jumps 199, first try.
Jumps 203, second try.
Jumps 198, third try.
It's just that 0.1 out of the event that he jumps a perfect 200 that fails him. Just because he is unlucky.
Bottom line: People deem perfect things IMPOSSIBLE because the probabilities are so small, and because their luck is like mine (running out) that they say 'screw it', and give up.
What you should do: Get a religion, pray to that god that the first time you do something, get the first try perfect. Hey, if I run Cortana Tomorrow (since I have a lot of time) 159 times, I'll get record times. Down side: i'll most probably give up after 50 failed tries out of a quarter of a million. Reduce the probability of doing something wrong by practicing. Practice makes perfect. and, Luck does play a part in everything that you do.
Gotta study......
~BenjaminTAN
EDIT: P(getting all english vocab, grammar and whatever-not correct the first time i post)=still 1/10.
This is the 4th time i edited the post.
Gotta start on my english. It's never too late, so they say
