scream-of-consciousness;
"If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
Every
time you pick up a well shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding
an arrangement of cards that have never before existed in all of
history.
There are
80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000 (67 zeros) ways to arrange a deck of 52 cards
I
bet that doesn't hold true if a computer does the shuffling, unless
someone has come up with a reliable random number algorithm. At
any
rate, that is a mind-blower.
Next logical step would be to calculate the odds of winning a lottery - in otherwords, how to determine "how many ways can you pick 6 numbers from 49 numbers" or whatever the exact form of the lottery is.
That should be shown to get welfare. If they don't understand it, they must be neutered!
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Next lesson in the series
ReplyDelete0!=1
Yep - zero factorial =1
.
Pretty neat lesson in slightly advanced math.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow let's sum up large groups of neighboring integers using good old Sigma(1..n) = n(n-1)/2
Next logical step would be to calculate the odds of winning a lottery - in otherwords, how to determine "how many ways can you pick 6 numbers from 49 numbers" or whatever the exact form of the lottery is.
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