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Originally Posted by jfuh  I had asked you where you saw this and you hadn't given me such a place. plain and simple. |
I quoted it in my post the very first time I used it. Did you think I dishonestly just made it up?
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Originally Posted by jfuh  :In powerball you must select 6 number's correctly to win the lottery.
And the first 5 once a number is taken it won't repeat itself except for the powerball which is another free for all.
So.
The highest number of powerball is 99, the lowest is 1.
Thus
1/99x1/98x1/97x1/96x1/95 for the first five and then x1/99 for the last powerball again.
That gives an odds of ~1.18 x 10^-12 That's 10 to the negative 12 power please by all means what value as 12 zeros after it? million?
PLease, do some math will you.
Your point is flawed, do the math.
Do the math.
how many 0's are behind 100 million? oh right, 6. What unit has 12 zeros behind it? |
ONLY because you said please. Im getting quite sick of this lackluster effort you are giving my posts and was about to quit wasting my time.
Powerball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote:
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As of May 2008, to play the game, a player pays $1 and picks five numbers from 1 to 55 (white balls) and one additional number from 1 to 42 (the red Powerball number.)
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So you do know how probability works. I commend you. But you had the facts wrong. It's five out of 55 and one powerball out of 42, not 99 like you thought.
It comes out to one in 150 million or so.
I'm hoping you didn't actually know this and then tried to slip it by me.
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Originally Posted by jfuh The article does not say trillions of intermediates. |
It said one in a trillion, meaning the odds. Meaning on average, you need a trillion attempts, or reproductions to get somthing as complicated as a net metabolism ability.
Now an attempt/reproduction itself is not an intermediate. Not that it matters.