On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:34:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: >too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's >not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that.
Don't do that. I was listening to the BBC overnight a few weeks back, and they must have been amending their lottery to have more numbers so the ultimate prize was bigger. They had a maths/stats prof on - he said for the current lottery, if you stood in line for six and a half minute waiting for a ticket you had more chance of dying in that 6.5 minutes than winning the money. They added more numbers, so the time delta went down accordingly. Sobering .... ;0) Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
