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To: Diddle E. Squat
The odds that one of the two letter 50 state abbreviations (or DC) appears in the last two slots is 7.8462%. There are 650 combinations you can make with two letters, and 51 of them are valid. No state abbreviations repeat their letter. The odds that FL appears is 1/650.

The odds that FL appears somewhere in the list is one in 26. There are 25 two letter combinations formed (1-2,2-3,3-4, and so on, down to 25-26). For any one of them, the odds that "FL" appears is one in 650, so the odds that FL appears somewhere is 25 in 650, or 1 in 26. So I guess seeing FL isn't that surprising. We don't see CA, and that'd be even more surprising. We also didn't see ARNOLD. The chances of that happening would be about 1 in 7.893 million. The chance of GRAY or CRUZ appearing would be 1 in 15,600. And the chance of seeing ARIANNA is ZERO.

41 posted on 08/11/2003 6:33:40 PM PDT by Koblenz (There's usually a free market solution)
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To: Koblenz
Good work.
48 posted on 08/11/2003 6:41:12 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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