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Natter 40: The Nice One

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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billytea - Nov 17, 2005 7:14:12 pm PST #5097 of 10006

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Doesn't that still come out to twenty?

No, then it comes out to the value of n such that 0.975^n = 0.5. There are logs involved. It's a thing.

Right, but it isn't independent trials. Can we really regard it that way?

If there are, say, 40,000,000 tickets, then it's effectively independent. If it's 4,000 it's probably close enough. It'd have to be a very small lottery for it to be materially different from independent.

Emily - Nov 17, 2005 7:19:18 pm PST #5098 of 10006

"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

So, each different lottery ticket is like an entry in a totally different lottery?

Jesse - Nov 17, 2005 7:19:24 pm PST #5099 of 10006

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Em turns a year in a week and a half.

Holy crap.

Hey Rio! How's the bod? (Was it your hip, with the moving machine and the whatnot?) Did you answer that already and I skimmed by?

aurelia - Nov 17, 2005 7:21:19 pm PST #5100 of 10006

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Since TV Guide changed their format I haven't seen them in checkout lines. Have other people noticed this, or is it just where I shop?

billytea - Nov 17, 2005 7:24:00 pm PST #5101 of 10006

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

So, each different lottery ticket is like an entry in a totally different lottery?

Well, enough like it to treat it that way. If you have 40,000,000 tickets and 1,000,000 winners, then whether or not ticket A is a winner does almost nothing to the probability that ticket B is a winner.

Rio - Nov 17, 2005 7:24:55 pm PST #5102 of 10006

Are you ready to be strong?

HI JESSE!!!!

I'm getting better but frankly I am sick of talking about my ailing body. How are you, bebe?

Trudy Booth - Nov 17, 2005 7:25:53 pm PST #5103 of 10006

Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

t smooches rio

Jesse - Nov 17, 2005 7:26:05 pm PST #5104 of 10006

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am tired for no good reason, stressed out about school, and hate my job. But actually, I'm great!

I went and saw Colbert tape tonight, which was very funny.

Cashmere - Nov 17, 2005 7:27:10 pm PST #5105 of 10006

Now tagless for your comfort.

DH is reading his copy of Contingencies. Why, yes, actuaries have their own magazine. It's filled with some interesting tidbits he shared.

1. An Association for Insurance Commissioners was set to have a conference in September. In New Orleans. They opted to cancel it.

2. The Microsoft ad with the Crime Fighting Actuary Who Always Gets the Girl was mentioned.

3. There's a math puzzle at the back.

sumi - Nov 17, 2005 7:34:05 pm PST #5106 of 10006

Art Crawl!!!

Just watched my tape of Alias and it's moving to Wednesday nights after Lost!!!

Plus, next episode (December 7th) - SARK !!!!!

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