by the numbers

65432!

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65456!

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25 numbers from 1 to 100. 2 22s, 2 32s, 2 44s, 2 45s. are these really random? what are the odds of getting so many pairs? as a junior in college, i fulfilled my remaining math credit by taking stats, so if you'd axt me a billion years ago back when i was scratching out stats on my alloted piece of wax tablet, i coulda told ya what the odds were. as it is now, alls i can tell you is that it shore don't look random to me.

we purchase lotto tix once or twice a week, and do we win? helz to the no! we occassionally rake in the massive $4 jackpot, but that could not possibly qualify as "winning" since we spend $5 a pop on the tix themselves and $4 return on $5 investment is not "winning". if you lose 20% of your investment in your small business endeavor, that's a tax deductible capital loss. pluswise, we clearly do not gain $4 every time, so the investment to loss proportion is much greater than 20%. in conclusion, $5/week is $250/yr - what the hell are we doing?!