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Old 01-15-2005, 02:24 PM
Dilbert Dilbert is offline
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Default Re: Using the Lottery to Break a Tie

Some of you guys are over thinking this.

Since the numbers are listed from low to high, just choose one of the numbers (say the 3rd lowest) and let odd/even determine who wins.

You should never choose the lowest or highest number, since they would have a slight bias to odd (since 1 and 49 are odd numbers). The 3rd or 4th out of a list of 6 from lowest to highest will not have this same bias effect.
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