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Old 11-14-2007, 09:43 AM
jjshabado jjshabado is offline
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Default Re: Negative Numbers are Confusing

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My Uncle works for the Indiana Lottory and when they first introduced Texas Hold Em scratch cards they had by far the highest number of unclaimed prizes of any scratch card they had ever produced, presumably because people couldn't discern winning hands.

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funny thing is even if they were too dumb to figure out the winning hand

lotto tickets have 2letters that if they match it means you win, so its easy to see if you won

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To be fair to the idiot, she probably knew that. She was complaining that the card was being treated as a loser, even though it should have been a winner (because she believes -8 > -6).
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