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Old 3rd May 2006, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by GrandMaster
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.
For comparison, there are apparently 7.5x10^18 grains of sand on every beach in the world.

So this is as likely as randomly picking a grain of sand from every beach in the world, and getting the same one three times.

In other words, it ain't gonna happen - with 4.6*10^17 seconds since the big bang, the chances are still remote if you tried a billion times per second since the beginning of time.
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