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Originally Posted by thelawnet
In other words, 522 wins is such a tiny number Excel is not remotely capable of calculating it. The number, 1.9*10^-12 is for 617 wins, being the smallest Excel can handle. 522 wins is orders of magnitude less likely than even that tiny number. At a guess you are looking at at least 20 zeros before the number.
I do not have any suitable software installed to calculate this number, but I daresay someone does and can oblige us with the tininess of the number.
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The probability of winning 522 or fewer out of 1537 trials is 4.9*10^-37. It is the same order of magnitude as winning the lottery with a single ticket 5 weeks in a row.