alt Hacker NewsThe lottery ticket part makes no sense. Statistically if such an improbable event just happened to him, then chance of it happening again should be even more improbable.
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jaccola • yesterday at 4:40 PM
The chance of him winning the lottery is identical to before, however the reward if he wins is slightly greater.
He would win the lottery money + he gets to tell people who don’t understand independence this incredible story!
angoragoats • yesterday at 5:01 PM
No, the events are independent. If you have a UUID collide, your chance of winning the lottery if you enter it is exactly the same as it was before the UUID collision.
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This is probably (ha) a troll thread, but in case anyone here is among today's lucky (ha) 10,000, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_(probability_theo...