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So because the chances of something happening are so infinitesimally small, it’ll never happen? Airplanes are orders of magnitude safer than cars, yet planes st
by colejohnson66 6y ago
So because the chances of something happening are so infinitesimally small, it’ll never happen? Airplanes are orders of magnitude safer than cars, yet planes still crash. The “law of large numbers” and all.
- dave333 6y agoBut there are simpler explanations, like they broadcast last weeks drawing by mistake, and once broadcast, they can't undo it.
- dan1234 6y agoFTA: > The lottery organisers described it as a freak coincidence and pointed out that the numbers were drawn in a different order. So, not the same broadcast.
- bawolff 6y agoYes, if you get small enough (not saying we are neccesarily small enough here). If the probability was something like 1/2^512, and it happened, i think its safe to say that something is fixed.
- dogsgobork 6y agoIf you shuffle a deck of cards, the probability of the cards ending up in the order you got is 1 in 8e67, but there it is.
- bawolff 6y agoThere's also a very small probability that the atoms inside the cards will spontanously shift so that every single card is an ace of spades