* Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's even sillier, if everyone bought 1,000,000 times as many tickets > guess how that would change the probabilities. not at all!
The main problem is: statistics is not reliable. You just can guess how many times approx. something will happen if you take a really large number of tries. You can never be sure for a single case. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
