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Old 12-29-2003, 03:41 AM
Cyrus Cyrus is offline
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Default Not fishy

"Does that mean 1 in 2, is 1 to 1? Sounds fishy to me."

"1 in 2" means succeeding one time out of two total tries (times) --- which is a 50% chance of success. Your odds of success are 1 to 1 against, you're a 1:1 "dog" to succeed. In other words, even money.
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