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Tangle
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03-01-2019 5:01 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Phat
03-01-2019 4:49 PM

Don't do it Phat.
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03-03-2019 5:17 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by Phat
03-03-2019 2:56 PM

Re: Expected Value per hour
Phat writes:
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Does anyone have any more insights into the science of probability?
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It's not hard Phat, the odds are the number of tickets you have divided by the number tickets entered in the lottery. ie it's essentially zero. But worse, it means you're thinking about it.
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"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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