Re: deal or no deal

2005-12-26 Thread Chip Turner
athematically the house pays out an expected infinite number of dollars over time. Exponential growth in winnings doesn't offset exponential risk in taking a loss because, once you hit a certain point, the money on the table is worth more than the 50% chance of having twice as much. Chip

Re: Beautiful Python

2005-12-26 Thread Chip Turner
On 2005-12-26 05:01:07 -0500, "Gekitsuu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I've been reading a lot of python modules lately to see how they work > and I've stumbled across something that's sort of annoying and wanted > to find out of there was a good reason behind it. In a Perl program > when you're cal