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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by sanoli on Sunday February 23, 2014 @11:42AM (#7286449)
Not really. If you buy 10 tickets, you're buying an extra dose of thrill because you think "I bought ten, I got a better chance of winning".
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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by Fomite on Sunday February 23, 2014 @07:34PM (#7288441)
My assertion is true even for people who understand probability, and thus won't get much thrill about multiplying ~0 by 10.
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