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- From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
- Subject: Re: Innumeracy, humorous ... maybe.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.054935.16071@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov16.045407.29782@udel.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:49:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.045407.29782@udel.edu>
- mccoy@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Don McCoy) writes:
- >In article <BxoJK2.KzI@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- > vnelson@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gerald Vernon Nelson) writes:
-
- >>He stated that people
- >>just didn't understand that the odds of winning that lottery were
- >>about 10 billion to 1 (49 * 48 * 47 *46 * 45 * 44).
- >>
- >>He was of course, inumerate himself, as the odds of winning are
- >>actually about 14 million to 1.
- >>
- >Uh, I could be wrong here, but I believe 10 billion to 1 is right.
- >How did you arrive at the 14 million to 1 figure???
-
- The odds of winning the lottery described are 49 choose 6 or 10 billion
- divided by 6!. Around 14 million.
-
- >..don...
-
- C Frog
-