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Old 10-27-2007, 04:45 PM
Sorcerer808 Sorcerer808 is offline
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Default Re: Something I\'ve been thinking about

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A coin-flip is a coin-flip

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Say you buy a lottery ticket $2, and you have 1/10000 to win $19 998. It's the only price. This situation is a coinflip but it has a lot more variance than a head-or-tail coinflip.
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