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Old 2nd May 2006, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by thelawnet
No, that is not possible.

522 wins out of 1537 trials has according to Excel a zero chance of occurrence. Of course it is non-zero, but the number is so small, Excel cannot calculate it. The best it can do is for 617 wins, when the possibility is

0.0000000000000019

So the fact that the software was cheating is a fact as anything can be.
It was definitely not a random (fair) game.

We just don't know for sure if they were deliberately cheating or not (unless you can calculate that with Excel too).