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Really big numbers…

Aug 1, 2008   //   by admin   //   Uncategorized  //  No Comments

Your odds of winning 6/49

I was thinking of a way that I could visualize the odds of winning 6/49. I decided to use pixels as a unit to describe a 2d surface that would represent the sample space. Unfortunately. The scale difference is so large that you can’t really see the single pixel unless you have a huge monitor.