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- Date: Sunday, 24 Jan 1993 16:59:53 EST
- From: <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
- Message-ID: <93024.165953RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: hoosier-cash-lotto-inspired puzzle.
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- you see the results of a lottery drawing: n numbers, i1, i2, ..., in.
- what is the chance that the highest number possible in the lottery is
- k? you can assume that the lowest possible number is one, that the
- possible numbers are all integers, and that if j is possible and j is
- not equal to one, then j-1 is possible. also, what is the chance that
- there is no k such that k is the highest number possible?
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- bob vesterman.
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