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Stg-Flame

Diamond Member
Mar 10, 2007
3,660
601
126
The numbers for the Roadrunner and Powerball are almost identical.

Maybe I am the only one who thought this was interesting.
 

fatpat268

Diamond Member
Jan 14, 2006
5,853
0
71
Originally posted by: Chaoticpenguin666
The numbers for the Roadrunner and Powerball are almost identical.

Maybe I am the only one who thought this was interesting.

Yea, I didn't notice it until you mentioned it.

I was about to say wtf is so special about these numbers? But now I get it. Interesting.
 

Nitemare

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
35,461
4
81
and a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards could actually produce Shakespeare

a weird coincidence though
 

gar3555

Diamond Member
Jan 8, 2005
3,510
0
0
Originally posted by: Nitemare
and a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards could actually produce Shakespeare

a weird coincidence though

hmmm...where would one get said monkeys?
 

TuxDave

Lifer
Oct 8, 2002
10,571
3
71
Originally posted by: Nitemare
and a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards could actually produce Shakespeare

a weird coincidence though

I think you're still off by many orders of magnitude. And "many" is a severe understatement.
 

anxi80

Lifer
Jul 7, 2002
12,294
2
0
Originally posted by: Nitemare
and a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards could actually produce Shakespeare

a weird coincidence though
it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!??
 

Injury

Lifer
Jul 19, 2004
13,066
2
81
Originally posted by: Nitemare
and a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards could actually produce Shakespeare

a weird coincidence though

I study I read about one time said that they think that myth is dead, as the tested monkeys mostly preffered to cover the keyboards in bodily excrements and typed mostly only 3 or so different characters.
 

dquan97

Lifer
Jul 9, 2002
12,010
3
0
Originally posted by: anxi80
Originally posted by: Nitemare
and a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards could actually produce Shakespeare

a weird coincidence though
it was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!??

I miss that episode...:brokenheart:
 

Foxery

Golden Member
Jan 24, 2008
1,709
0
0
What is the highest number you can pick in each of those lottos?

My memory of combinatorics is really fuzzy, but if I assume the numbers can be from 1-40 and can't repeat, then:
Picking 4 specific balls in one lotto is 40*39*38*37 = 2,193,360
Or, in math class, you'd write it as 40!/36! (order of the balls does not matter)
I think you would square this to determine the chances of drawing the same 4 balls a second time. (?)
4,810,828,089,600 (4.8 trillion)

And this would apply to any string of 4 numbers matching, not just 12-19-30-34. For a range of 1-50, this becomes 30,549,939,840,000. (30 trillion)

*Disclaimer: My math might suck, but it amused me to try.