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  2. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The probability of this happening is 1 in 13,983,816. The chance of winning can be demonstrated as follows: The first number drawn has a 1 in 49 chance of matching. When the draw comes to the second number, there are now only 48 balls left in the bag, because the balls are drawn without replacement .

  3. Random number table - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-1940s, the RAND Corporation set about to develop a large table of random numbers for use with the Monte Carlo method, and using a hardware random number generator produced A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates.

  4. Benford's law - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Observation that in many real-life datasets, the leading digit is likely to be small For the unrelated adage, see Benford's law of controversy. The distribution of first digits, according to Benford's law. Each bar represents a digit, and the height of the bar is the percentage of ...

  5. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

  6. Notation in probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    [1] The probability is sometimes written to distinguish it from other functions and measure P to avoid having to define "P is a probability" and () is short for ({: ()}), where is the event space, is a random variable that is a function of (i.e., it depends upon ), and is some outcome of interest within the domain specified by (say, a ...

  7. Outline of probability - Wikipedia

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    The certainty that is adopted can be described in terms of a numerical measure, and this number, between 0 and 1 (where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty) is called the probability. Probability theory is used extensively in statistics , mathematics , science and philosophy to draw conclusions about the likelihood of potential ...

  8. Balls into bins problem - Wikipedia

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    (All the bounds hold with probability at least / for any constant >.) Note that for m > n log ⁡ n {\displaystyle m>n\log n} , the random allocation process gives only the maximum load of m n + O ( log ⁡ log ⁡ n ) {\displaystyle {\frac {m}{n}}+O\left(\log \log n\right)} with high probability, so the improvement between these two processes ...

  9. Martingale (betting system) - Wikipedia

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    In this example, the probability of losing the entire bankroll and being unable to continue the martingale is equal to the probability of 6 consecutive losses: (10/19) 6 = 2.1256%. The probability of winning is equal to 1 minus the probability of losing 6 times: 1 − (10/19) 6 = 97.8744%. The expected amount won is (1 × 0.978744) = 0.978744.