If you’re a huge fan of algebra, probability and math then you’ve come across the term “dependant events.” Fascinating stuff. No? James Bond knows about this stuff because he is a good poker player.
Really! Get on the internet and look it up. Cool stuff.
So what does math have to do with Frankie? Frankie has created dependant events just being in the gecko room.
For example, I have a routine in the gecko room. I have geckos therefore I clean gecko enclosures: It’s 100% gotta do and no probability to it.
Toss 85 pound sulcata tortoise into the gecko room and it’s a mess of probabilities and independent and dependant events, cause and effect and a touch of chaos.
This morning I went into the gecko room to begin chores. Frankie is sleeping under a pile of crumpled newspapers. Right off the bat I have to deal with probabilities: Frankie can continue to sleep or Frankie will wake up.
Greatly desiring that Frankie will sleep a little longer I turn his heat pad on a low setting. Frankie-cold means more sleep results in gecko chores completed. Still, I am putting off the inevitable event of Frankie waking up.
First thing I gotta do is feed the box turtles. If Frankie is awake for feed-box-turtle event then the probability of Frankie peeing on the floor increases dramatically. I grab supplements and food and immediately start feeding the girls.
The lower heat delay was worth about 20 minutes. I am not yet finished with feeding the girls when Frankie pulls up beside me (I am sitting on the floor) to see if his ladies are around. Frankie catches sight of Mama Turtle. Frankie pees.
It’s a chain of events that results in the gecko room getting mopped today. Today is not floor mopping day. Frankie seeing box turtles changed the outcome.
Frankie doesn’t get fed every day during winter however the probability he will be fed is directly related to the amount of newspaper he will consume to get the point across to me that today, indeed, is a day Frankie will be fed. It’s called Conditional Probability.
Frankie getting fed creates another curious dependant event.
I head outside to pick grass and weeds from the yard. I get
