Quoth Klaus-Peter Schrage: > Kurt Wall wrote: [rusty statistics]
> I don't know about the details of the American lotto system, but > according to Tom's description it seems to be similar to our's (apart > from us having numbers from 1 to 49). Thus, order doesn't matter: a > sequence of drawings of ping pong balls like 2, 4, 39, 5, 40, 9 yields > the same result as 40, 2, 39, 5, 9, 4 or any other permution. So, it's > combinations. http://www.powerball.com/pbhowtoplay.shtm It's combinations. Kurt -- Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
