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Re: Odd Escape
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Originally Posted by Frank Toussaint
Regarding:
>How about this one:
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>Option A) Play the same set of lottery numbers every week for 52 weeks.
>Option B) Play 52 different sets of lottery numbers in one week.
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Here's a counter example:
Supose that there were seventy million possible sets of numbers to be played. Consider the following two options:
Option A') Play the same set of lottery numbers every week for seventy million weeks.
Option B') Play all seventy million different sets of lottery numbers in one week.
In option A' it is possible that your set of lottery numbers never comes up but in option B' you are certain to hit. Option B is better.
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Score the second cookie for Frank Toussaint. 
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This question causes more heated debate than any other popular probability-based problem I know.
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It's so true:
http://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showth...threadid=34178
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