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sscaryterry • today at 10:35 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Why are many of them, suspicious?


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kenniskrag • today at 11:23 AM

The probability of getting a 0 is the same for every digit. However, in my opinion, the probability of getting a number that starts with two zeros is 1/10 * 1/10, and the probability of getting a number that starts with the same two digits is 10 * 1/10 * 1/10.

But the probability to receive one number or the other are the same.

matsemann • today at 11:07 AM

By random chance you probably wouldn't get that many zeros. Of course, one could say it's just as random as any other string, but..

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