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have to agree with Kyo . . . . . .. . many people are unable to grasp the logic that last weeks lottery numbers are as likely to appear again this week as any other sequence . . . . they prefer to beleive that last weeks sequence of numbers are 'guaranteed' NOT to re-appear.
I am intrigued however by the 'law of high numbers' which appears to illustrate that normal probabilities break down for very large repetitions.
Consider the number of roullette wheels spinning constantly around the world as you read this . . 24 hours a day every day for many many years. . . Now given such a massive amount of sample spins we would reasonably expect there to have been say 100 reds or blacks or evens or odds in a row by now . . . when in fact i understand the largest number of 50/50 'tosses' ever recorded is 23 reds in a row in France in the early 1970's. My point being that at very large samples the laws of probability break down, and you cannot reach any conclusions about 'infinity' or long term projections due to the fact that every day is a new day . . without any memory of the previous.
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