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:Revamped Perl Script To More Evenly Distribute Number Pool Match Odds
Revamped Perl Script To More Evenly Distribute Number Pool Match Odds
Sep 19, 2008, 08 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2514 reads)

(Other stories by Mike Tremell)

[ Thanks to Mike Golvach for this link. ]

"I actually chose to go with this sort of distribution for a particular reason. Well, reasoning, anyway. My reasoning was this: If I rewrite the distribution so that it ends up being more "fair" (The best I could get was a somewhat even distribution that would guarantee any given match set would come up only once or twice), this would probably seem like a better deal, since the odds are "spread out.""

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