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To: catnipman

The odds of your winning the Powerball lottery are also essentially zero, and yet otherwise rational people spend money on it. Go figure.

Also essentially zero is still not zero, so something one hundred times not zero is still something.


12 posted on 01/14/2016 5:21:20 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

“so something one hundred times not zero is still something.”

Indeed. but somehow SA’s “one hundred times greater” doesn’t seem quite as significant when you realize it’s 100 times greater than almost nothing.


21 posted on 01/14/2016 5:26:09 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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