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Old 09-08-2005, 11:59 AM
donkeyradish donkeyradish is offline
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Default Re: Anything that can happen will happen?

another thing

Suppose you are playing roulette and the numbers come up in this order:

4,12,8,34,12,30,19,5,20,15,7,22,9,3.

You wouldn't think this was anything out of the ordinary, right? It just looks like a typical random selection, doesn't it?

But now calculate how likely it is that this exact sequence shows up ...!!

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