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Old November 12th 06, 08:57 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Neil Sunderland Neil Sunderland is offline
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Default We're all doomed ...

Col wrote:
Say I had a 13 faced die, numbered 1 to 13 then you would agree
that the chances of getting a 13 are 13-1, right?


Only if there was an equal chance of it landing on any particular
number, and I think that's only possible if it's very cunningly
weighted. Now if you had said you had a 12-faced or 20-faced die...

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