ShytKicker
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Make sure you read the post from page 4 first.
Read: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/56581.html
Notice he said assuming the lottery isn't rigged.
Most people will respond that the chance of tails is now very high.
(Ask your friend and see what he says.) However, the true answer is
that the probability is 1/2. It's 1/2 on EVERY flip, no matter what
results came before. Like the slot machine and the lottery, the coin
has no memory.
By the way I heard a good joke about the Lottery.
Lottery: Definition: A tax for the mathematically incompetent.
Read: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/56581.html
But every combination of numbers is EXACTLY equally likely (assuming
that the lottery isn't rigged). So you have exactly the same chance
of winning if you pick 1,2,3,4,5,6 or 5,10,18,33,45,50.
Notice he said assuming the lottery isn't rigged.