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09-11-2002, 09:53 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Weird...
The lottery results for New York State:
http://www.nylottery.org/winner/c_winner.php
Check the 4th one down. Spooky.
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09-11-2002, 09:58 PM #2Web Hosting Evangelist
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From the Unreal Dept. NY Lottery Number for Tonight 911
It's amazing.
I mean I know it's statistically possible, but the NY evening lottery numbers for their pick three game was 911.
http://www.compunotes.com/lottery.gif
I am sufficiently spooked.
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09-11-2002, 10:00 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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Wow, that is weird.
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09-11-2002, 10:00 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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I win...I posted it first...just with a crappier subject...
<<MOD NOTE: Threads merged>>
oh well...live and learnLast edited by Chicken; 09-11-2002 at 11:08 PM.
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09-11-2002, 10:03 PM #5Web Hosting Evangelist
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I even included a screen shot and a better title.
Considering we have the same source I say I'd won. :-)
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09-11-2002, 10:23 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Regardless who won, it is odd.
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09-11-2002, 11:19 PM #7
Smells more like a rigged marketing gimmick then anything else.
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09-11-2002, 11:24 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by DanielP
Smells more like a rigged marketing gimmick then anything else.-Mooneer
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09-11-2002, 11:26 PM #9A#* Duke Of New York
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naw, just luck. I bet there were quite a few winners on that though. I am sure the date has come up as a number a lot before. Just this time, it means something a little different. May be spooky, but in the end, just luck
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09-12-2002, 12:29 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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The chances of that being picked are 1 out of 1000. The odds arent too far fetched.
Yet again, I did not win lotto. I really wanted to buy some 3rd Gen Cheetahs too. Than again, I only play $1k/week/life and lotto (when its really big) so I would not have won Numbers anyhow.
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09-12-2002, 12:36 AM #11Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Acronym BOY
The odds arent too far fetched.Specializing in SEO and PPC management.
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09-12-2002, 12:46 AM #12Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by JayC
Nope. After all, if on March 30th the numbers 330 come up no one even notices. Like most coincidences, it only seems like something more because of the human characteristic of creating associations and identifying patterns. And we've all heard the phrase "nine-eleven" so much in the past year that every time you hear it in a different context it's noticeable.
Since it is picked twice a day, the date must come up (according to teh law of averages) every 500 days or almost every other year. And since the law of averages isnt an absolute it can happen more often or less often.
People freak out and go crazy over the silliest of things. MY grandmother called me to tell me the terrorists fixed the lotto. I spent 30 minutes on the phone explaing to her how probablity works.
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09-12-2002, 03:34 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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it was a sign from god. honest.
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09-12-2002, 10:45 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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Nah, the sign from God was the freaked out wind yesterday. It actually blew a huge tree down about 2 blocks from my house...which landed on a taxi.
Weird day.
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09-12-2002, 11:03 AM #15Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by lightnin
Nah, the sign from God was the freaked out wind yesterday. It actually blew a huge tree down about 2 blocks from my house...which landed on a taxi.
Last edited by JayC; 09-12-2002 at 12:26 PM.
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09-12-2002, 11:13 AM #16Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by JayC
Wow! I thought it was windy here, but that is really bad. Is your house ok? How will you get that taxi out from under it?
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09-12-2002, 11:36 AM #17Web Hosting Master
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again. refer to the following doc:
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09-12-2002, 01:34 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by lightnin
Nah, the sign from God was the freaked out wind yesterday. It actually blew a huge tree down about 2 blocks from my house...which landed on a taxi.
Weird day.
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09-12-2002, 06:39 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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Another odd 911 coincidence
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...es_1&printer=1This space for let.
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09-12-2002, 07:00 PM #20Disabled
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From a local online news paper.
September 12, 2002
N.Y. Lottery drawing pops up 9-1-1
The Associated Press
ALBANY — On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a date often repeated as 9-11, the numbers that popped up for the New York Lottery were 9-1-1.
``The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols,'' said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. ``It's just the way the numbers came up.''
Lottery officials said Thursday that 5,631 people selected the winning sequence. They will each win $500, Hapeman said.
The 9-1-1 combination was picked so often, it reached the lottery's set limit for combinations and sold out, Hapeman said. On any given day, seven to 10 sets of numbers are ``closed out,'' she said.
Christopher M. Rump, an assistant professor of industrial engineering who studies probability at the University of Buffalo, said there was a one in 1,000 chance of the numbers ``9-1-1'' coming up on in the lottery.
``I'm a bit surprised, but I wouldn't characterize it as bizarre.'' Rump says. ``It's randomness. Every number has the same chance of coming up. People tend to read into these things. I'm sure that whatever numbers come up tonight will have some special meaning to someone, somewhere.''
A similar coincidence occurred Nov. 12 when the numbers 5-8-7 came up in the New Jersey Lottery the day American Airlines Flight 587 crashed on the New York coast.
Hapeman said Wednesday was the first time in more than a year that the 9-1-1 combination had come up in the New York Lottery. For the evening drawing, the lottery uses numbered balls circulating in a machine. When three levers are pressed, three balls pop up into tubes randomly.
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09-12-2002, 08:07 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by JayC
Wow! I thought it was windy here, but that is really bad. Is your house ok? How will you get that taxi out from under it?Originally posted by lightnin
Everything's fine here...the Fire Dept. Came and got the car and the (huge) tree out of the street. It was some sight...Specializing in SEO and PPC management.
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09-12-2002, 09:31 PM #22Junior Guru Wannabe
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said there was a one in 1,000 chance of the numbers
Probability of not getting 9-1-1 in one trial = 999/1000 or .999
Therefore, probability of not getting 9-1-1 in two trials = 1 - (1 - .999)*2 = .998
Therfore, probability of getting 9-1-1 in two trials = .002 which I guess is really 2/1000 - I'm actually not sure if that's right...
Anyone care to double-check my math? The one thing I do know for sure is that the probability isn't exactly 1/1000 given two trials...
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09-12-2002, 10:31 PM #23Web Hosting Master
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Correct. There is a 1/500 chance that it would happen in one day as there are twoo pickings fur "Numbers". But on one pull it is 1/1000. Sorry should have been more clear.
I think 5000 or so people won with an exact match. One person lives down the street from me.
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09-13-2002, 12:26 AM #24Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by JayC
Grrr... my subtle attempt at humor/lighthearted grammar flame was missed completely! So I edited my post so it's less subtle.
Yeah, once we lifted up the house and I was able to reattach the string to the tin can so I could get back online, everything was hunky dorey.
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09-13-2002, 12:43 AM #25Junior Guru
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I think it was setup to be like that, dont know why..