Yeah, but there's someone in San Jose who must be pretty stoked right now.
Katie
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark J. Andy [mailto:marka@telerama.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:37 PM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Math and the lottery
Howdy,
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Anthony Tabacco wrote:
> For the mathematically inclined, here is a small statistical truth: "Your
> odds of winning are statically the same whether you enter or not".
Further indicating that statistics lie. :-)
Its a good example of how "zero" and "very, very, very small" are two
distinctly different things though.
Mark
(who considers $104/year (two tickets a week in the PA lottery) to be a
reasonable price to be able to daydream about what I'd do with a few
million)
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