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Thread: Winning New York Lotto Numbers: 9-1-1 | |
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Nivek
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posted September 13, 2002 01:31 AM |
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Winning New York Lotto Numbers: 9-1-1
Very interesting, to say the least:
[url]http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/12/ar911.sept11.lottery.ap/index.html[/url]
ALBANY, New York (AP) -- On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks, a date known as 9-11, the evening numbers drawn in the New York Lottery were 9-1-1.
"The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols," said lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. "It's just the way the numbers came up."
Lottery officials won't know until Thursday morning how many people played those numbers or the total payout, she said.
For the evening numbers game, the New York Lottery selects from balls numbered zero to nine circulating in a machine at the lottery office. Three levers are pressed, and three balls are randomly brought up into tubes and then displayed.
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Celfious
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posted September 13, 2002 07:25 AM |
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Mabey it's god? What a funny guy hahaha. "Psh"
I could've thought of better
edit~After reading the official CNN new's break, I saw this. "There is a 1-in-1,000 chance of the numbers 9-1-1 coming up in the lottery."
They are wrong, it's 1-in-999 chance. GoD WHy are human's so stupid?!
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Romana
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posted September 13, 2002 12:05 PM |
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uhmm..you're human too you know..and who says you are corect?
You may think you are correct but who is to say?
I mean have you ever heard of the line : " I think therefor I am"?
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bort
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posted September 13, 2002 02:18 PM |
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Quote:
They are wrong, it's 1-in-999 chance. GoD WHy are human's so stupid?!
How do you figure? 000-999 = 1000 numbers. Any given number in there has a 1/1000 chance of coming up. (Think percentile dice in D&D 00-99 = 100 numbers)
Alternatively, you could view it as 3 independent random number generators, in which case the odds of getting 911 are 1/10 x 1/10 x 1/10 = 1/1000.
If 0 is impossible, ie, only 1-9 for each ball, then the chances are 1/9 x 1/9 x 1/9 = 1/729
Either way, it's not 1/999.
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Celfious
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From earth
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posted September 13, 2002 05:06 PM |
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oh haha.. I was in a god thing, whereas I'm genious in a realm of no word's number's, or science.
Anyhow..
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Nivek
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posted September 13, 2002 11:55 PM |
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Well, not only is it the odds of the numbers coming up, but of it occuring on that particular date... pretty odd.
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