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To: Elsie
Why would you -- rational and sharp student of detective novels and real crime stories and a mathematician to boot (or slipper, whatever) -- ever think they could possibly be real coins with two different sides? The chance of ALL fifty falling heads-up after a toss ....
1,656 posted on 02/02/2005 8:06:23 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw

Why... it'd be time for me to buy a lottery ticket!!!

(After all, the odds of winning are SO much better if you buy one; aren't they?)

A good question: which is more likely - me finding a winner someone accidently mis-read and discarded it; or buying my own and winning???


1,658 posted on 02/02/2005 8:10:03 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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