Re: Lotteries

MIKE MALLEN (mallen@SBCEO.K12.CA.US)
Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:40:56 -0800

I like yours best, Brian. You can't win if you don't play. The probability
of winning is zero without a ticket (and damn close to zero if you do!).
Besides, probability (frequency definition, anyway) is about populations,
not individuals like you and me, Brian. Right?
Wishfully thinking,
Mike Mallen

At 08:00 PM 1/18/97 EST, you wrote:
>how about: Lottery - a way to make the impossible possible
>(especially for those who subsist on a tyc salary!) :)
>
>Brian
>
>>At 12:12 PM 1/17/97 EST, you wrote:
>>>It's Friday so this seems an appropriate time to share this definition :-)
>>>
>>>Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
>>>
>>>Roberta
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>>I have heard this definition -
>>
>>Lottery: A voluntary tax on the stupid.
>>
>>
>>
>>Bret Taylor Lake-Sumter Community College Leesburg FL
>>
>>"It matters not the subject taught, nor all the books on all the shelves.
>>What matters more, yes most of all, is what the teachers are themselves."
>> John Wooden
>>
>>John 3: 33 + 3
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