18 Straight Rolls on Batters Card Against My Team...
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by macnole » Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:55 pm
[quote:d48e23386c="YountFan"]People win the lottery twice with worse odds. Highly unlikely does not mean does not happen[/quote:d48e23386c]
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Twice...same game.
Tell you what. Grab 18 coins and toss them all at once. When you happen to toss all 18 with heads, post back.
Exactly the same mathematically.
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Twice...same game.
Tell you what. Grab 18 coins and toss them all at once. When you happen to toss all 18 with heads, post back.
Exactly the same mathematically.
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by YountFan » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:01 pm
Won 4 multiple million dollar jackpots
Three of her wins, all in two-year intervals, were by scratch-off tickets bought at the same mini mart in the town of Bishop.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginther-won-lottery-4-times-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html
Three of her wins, all in two-year intervals, were by scratch-off tickets bought at the same mini mart in the town of Bishop.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginther-won-lottery-4-times-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html
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by Muadib1950 » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:02 pm
[quote:5274a1b3c5="macnole"][quote:5274a1b3c5="YountFan"]People win the lottery twice with worse odds. Highly unlikely does not mean does not happen[/quote:5274a1b3c5]
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Twice...same game.
Tell you what. Grab 18 coins and toss them all at once. When you happen to toss all 18 with heads, post back.
Exactly the same mathematically.[/quote:5274a1b3c5]
[b:5274a1b3c5]
Uhh ... I get the odds of 18 straight times on either the hitters or pitchers card to be 1 in 262,144 ... not 1 in 262 ... is it not 2 to the 18th power?[/b:5274a1b3c5]
It damn side better be that rare! Or some such, no?
[b:5274a1b3c5]
My Press Secretary reports that my previous statement is inoperative! I saw only "262" in the opening note of this thread ... my eye skipped right over the "k" in "262k" ... Duhh on the Uhhh too!"[/b:5274a1b3c5]
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Twice...same game.
Tell you what. Grab 18 coins and toss them all at once. When you happen to toss all 18 with heads, post back.
Exactly the same mathematically.[/quote:5274a1b3c5]
[b:5274a1b3c5]
Uhh ... I get the odds of 18 straight times on either the hitters or pitchers card to be 1 in 262,144 ... not 1 in 262 ... is it not 2 to the 18th power?[/b:5274a1b3c5]
It damn side better be that rare! Or some such, no?
[b:5274a1b3c5]
My Press Secretary reports that my previous statement is inoperative! I saw only "262" in the opening note of this thread ... my eye skipped right over the "k" in "262k" ... Duhh on the Uhhh too!"[/b:5274a1b3c5]
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by macnole » Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:58 pm
Yup correct 262K...no one argued that I dont think.
Not sure what a lottery winner has to do with it though.
Guy: Wow...lightning struck the same place twice last week--that's very rare
Dude: No it's not...after all, someone won the lottery twice once.
Guy: oh.
Sorry, dont get it!
Did you toss all 18 heads yet?
Not sure what a lottery winner has to do with it though.
Guy: Wow...lightning struck the same place twice last week--that's very rare
Dude: No it's not...after all, someone won the lottery twice once.
Guy: oh.
Sorry, dont get it!
Did you toss all 18 heads yet?
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by PotKettleBlack » Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:25 pm
[quote:385a5d4f66="macnole"]Yup correct 262K...no one argued that I dont think.
Not sure what a lottery winner has to do with it though.
Guy: Wow...lightning struck the same place twice last week--that's very rare
Dude: No it's not...after all, someone won the lottery twice once.
Guy: oh.
Sorry, dont get it!
Did you toss all 18 heads yet?[/quote:385a5d4f66]
Toss 18 coins sequentially and call me when you get:
HTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHT
It's 50-50 that you get that exact combo before you get 18 H.
Seriously.
Not sure what a lottery winner has to do with it though.
Guy: Wow...lightning struck the same place twice last week--that's very rare
Dude: No it's not...after all, someone won the lottery twice once.
Guy: oh.
Sorry, dont get it!
Did you toss all 18 heads yet?[/quote:385a5d4f66]
Toss 18 coins sequentially and call me when you get:
HTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHT
It's 50-50 that you get that exact combo before you get 18 H.
Seriously.
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by scorehouse » Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:01 pm
hit a 14 team parley in vegas once. needed SF in the sunday night game to do it. didn't pay close to the real odds. it was on a card not a window bet.
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