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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (3903)12/19/2003 1:04:32 PM
From: benwood  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4905
 
Luck is subjective, as you said, and also always applied in retrospect. Assuming perfect dice, the odds would be slim indeed of the little experiment I suggested, but nevertheless it could happen, around 1 in 1,715,759,518,940. If a team of rollers rolled the dice once for every dollar of US national debt, that event should happen 4 times or so. But the odds of it happening when I first start the experiment are the same as after I have already rolled the dice a trillion times and not accomplished the feat. I wouldn't really roll the dice, of course, I'd farm those jobs out to some factory in Asia.



To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (3903)12/19/2003 1:18:48 PM
From: orkrious  Respond to of 4905
 
but if you had dice that did not roll box cars over 1000 consecutive rolls, the real probability is that the dice are not properly weighted.

lol. good answer


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