In the late 1980s, a woman in New Jersey played the lottery and won $4 million. She played again four months later and won another million dollars. What are the odds? Mathematicians put it at 1 in 17 trillion! But it turned out they were wrong. Way wrong. It’s actually 1 in 30.
The Law of Large Numbers
The Law of Large Numbers
The Law of Large Numbers
In the late 1980s, a woman in New Jersey played the lottery and won $4 million. She played again four months later and won another million dollars. What are the odds? Mathematicians put it at 1 in 17 trillion! But it turned out they were wrong. Way wrong. It’s actually 1 in 30.