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Re: [Chicken-users] Re: chicken lottery!
From: |
Ivan Raikov |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Re: chicken lottery! |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:38:45 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Well, I am flattered by the nice thoughts, but I am already quite
content with being able to use all the eggs contributed by the Chicken
community, and I am very happy to contribute back. Though I am curious
to know why you think that evenly distributed numbers would increase
the chance of winning. Is it something particular about the random
number generator used?
-Ivan
"Terrence Brannon" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Wow! Against all odds... one lil' egg takes the cake! A few thoughts:
>
> * I think Ivan would've had a better change of winning if his 23
> numbers were evenly distributed from 1-64 instead of being clumped in
> the low range... I will on sci.math about this
> * I thought of giving the shirt to Ivan for his generous help on his
> random egg. But then I began to think about all the help I've gotten
> from Kon on the array-lib egg. And then there's people like Mario
> holding the whole infrastructure together... it's like the story of
> the man and the child where only one can ride the camel and it doesnt
> matter whether the child or man rides, there is some criticism that
> one can make.
>