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jbox:
The fact that you can't reliably tell me which side of a fair die will come up from a fair roll has not somehow prevented casinos from making money on the game of Craps.  :dunno

saint:
But you can tell someone statistically what combined number will come up more often that others with two dice...

jbox:
Nahhh..... Surely if you can't tell me exactly what the total will be on my fifth roll from now, how can I believe you can tell me what the average total will be over five million rolls?!?  ;)

saint:
I'm slow today :)

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: jbox on May 27, 2007, 11:56:30 am ---Nahhh..... Surely if you can't tell me exactly what the total will be on my fifth roll from now, how can I believe you can tell me what the average total will be over five million rolls?!?  ;)

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I can tell you the exact probability of what could come up in five rolls, you can't tell me the exact probability of what the weather will be in 5 days.

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