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Old 09-08-2005, 12:02 AM
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Default Re: Anything that can happen will happen?

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Does it mean that there is even a possibility of 100 reds in a row? Or even 1000 reds in a row? [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

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Yes, or 10000, or 100000... etc.

It gets worse: there is as much chance to get such a sequence, beginning from your first observation, as any other specific sequence you may choose.

So you could really start out with a bad beat here [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Enjoy

MidGe

"Our human race is affected with a chronic underestimation of the possibility of the future straying from the course initially envisioned" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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