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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (65229)	6/20/2005 8:06:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Mary, that's an easy concept, but a false one. <It is inevitable that it will turn up red(or black). You could always double up after you lose. Easy concept. > It is not in the slightest inevitable. You might just be the unlucky one who gets 10,000 blacks in a row while doubling up on red [and losing to the house about every 36 rolls]. But you won't need 10,000 blacks in a row to lose. You might have heard the old story about the chess board, the emperor and the grains of rice. He asked for payment for a large estate of one grain of rice for the first square, two for the second, four for the third and so on for all 64 squares. The innumerate counter-party thought that was a bargain for a large estate and agreed, then started delivering the rice. Try it out and see how many grains of rice you have to have to cover the first 30 squares, then the next 10, then the next 10 and you have run out of room in the cosmos and certainly have run out of cents, let alone dollars, to double again. Mqurice