hmm i thought that's what I was saying LOL.. individual chances on a singular event has no bearing on the cumulative total probability.
Well if that's what you're saying, then you are still not understanding it. Individual chance on a singular event DOES have bearing on the cumulative statistical chance (just not on other individual chances). If the coin toss/missile Pk is .50 to get heads/hit or tails/miss, then the cumulative probability of 5 tails/misses out of 5 attempts is only 3.125% chance. If the coin is weighted to favor heads or the missile Pk is higher, say 0.7, then the cumulative probability of 5 tails/misses out of 5 attempts drops to only 0.243% chance.
A decision tree, or a probability tree.
It has an order, like in permutation. When you add up the final probability of each branch, you would get 1.
What Iron Man said is true. What kwaigonegin was saying doesn't even involve an order, like in combination.