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Old 11-21-2009, 12:17 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mazul View Post
Your "logic" is flawed. Assuming that you have 1/17 chance to get something of any value with 10 dollars, then, with 100 dollars, your chance would only be 1- (16/17)^10, which is about 0.45. This is to be compared to "your" 10/17 which is about 0.59.
Cool, but, nobody actually cares as nobody is stupid enough to spend $100 on it.
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