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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

What types of numbers have higher probabilities?


40 posted on 10/19/2005 9:14:02 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: rwfromkansas

Randomness has no memory.

Flip a coin in the air 50 times and it comes up heads every time. What are the chances of it coming up heads on the 51st flip?

Answer - 50/50.


42 posted on 10/19/2005 9:17:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: rwfromkansas
What types of numbers have higher probabilities?

Some numbers have a hot streak in which they win two or three drawings in a row. Other numbers sit out at least a dozen games.

This can be determined by looking at a list of winning numbers for the past ten or twenty games. You can see patterns (Cue the snide FReeper remarks who'll say that I'm on LSD or pot or something)

47 posted on 10/19/2005 9:21:52 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed)
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