People SUCK at math
Story about the Nebraska lotto.
Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey says one of two lottery computers that randomly generate combinations picked the numbers 1, 9 and 6 - in that order - for Monday night's drawing. He says the other computer picked the same three numbers Tuesday in the same sequence.
The odds of such an occurrence? One in a million.
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NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The odds of choosing any 3 numbers your name in order is 1 in 1000. One computer doesn't care what another computer picked the day before. Now if you want to say that a player won 2 days in a row, then the odds of that would then be one in a million because the first chance is 1 in 1000, but as far as the computers are concerned the odds of the first pick is 1 in 1. There will always be a random 3 digit number from 000-999. It is only up to the 2nd computer to match that 3 digit number in the same manner that it is up to you as the player to also pick that number.
Anyone need any more explanation?
Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey says one of two lottery computers that randomly generate combinations picked the numbers 1, 9 and 6 - in that order - for Monday night's drawing. He says the other computer picked the same three numbers Tuesday in the same sequence.
The odds of such an occurrence? One in a million.
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NOT TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The odds of choosing any 3 numbers your name in order is 1 in 1000. One computer doesn't care what another computer picked the day before. Now if you want to say that a player won 2 days in a row, then the odds of that would then be one in a million because the first chance is 1 in 1000, but as far as the computers are concerned the odds of the first pick is 1 in 1. There will always be a random 3 digit number from 000-999. It is only up to the 2nd computer to match that 3 digit number in the same manner that it is up to you as the player to also pick that number.
Anyone need any more explanation?