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  2. Googol - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, family members of Kasner, who had inherited the right to his book, were considering suing Google for their use of the term "googol"; [11] however, no suit was ever filed. [ 12 ] Since October 2009, Google has been assigning domain names to its servers under the domain "1e100.net", the scientific notation for 1 googol, in order to ...

  3. Random number book - Wikipedia

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    A random number book is a book whose main content is a large number of random numbers or random digits. Such books were used in early cryptography and experimental design, and were published by the Rand Corporation [1] and others. The Rand corporation book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates was first published in 1955 and was ...

  4. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

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    The RAND table was an important breakthrough in delivering random numbers, because such a large and carefully prepared table had never before been available. In addition to being available in book form, one could also order the digits on a series of punched cards. The table is formatted as 400 pages, each containing 50 lines of 50 digits.

  5. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    Now, since the player initially chose door 1, the chance that the host opens door 3 is 50% if the car is behind door 1, 100% if the car is behind door 2, 0% if the car is behind door 3. Thus the Bayes factor consists of the ratios ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ : 1 : 0 or equivalently 1 : 2 : 0, while the prior odds were 1 : 1 : 1.

  6. Fortunate number - Wikipedia

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    The Fortunate number for p n # is always above p n and all its divisors are larger than p n. This is because p n #, and thus p n # + m, is divisible by the prime factors of m not larger than p n. If a composite Fortunate number does exist, it must be greater than or equal to p n+1 2. [citation needed] The Fortunate numbers for the first ...

  7. Richard Lustig - Wikipedia

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    His book Learn How to Increase Your Chances of Winning the Lottery was ranked #3 on Amazon's self-help book list in 2013. [2] In an interview with ABC News, Lustig explained that his method is to re-invest all of his winnings back into the lottery. [2] [8] He also recommends using hand-picked sequential numbers and using the same numbers ...

  8. Odds and evens (hand game) - Wikipedia

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    Odds and evens is a simple game of chance and hand game, involving two people simultaneously revealing a number of fingers and winning or losing depending on whether they are odd or even, or alternatively involving one person picking up coins or other small objects and hiding them in their closed hand, while another player guesses whether they have an odd or even number.

  9. Paper money catalog - Wikipedia

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    From 1994-2015 George S. Cuhaj was editor, and Pick died in 2015, but the catalogs are still commonly referred to as 'Pick Catalogs' and dealers and collectors alike refer to banknotes by their 'Pick number'. Current issues of the three volumes include: Standard Catalog of World Paper Money: Specialized Issues (11th Ed. Vol. 1) by George S. Cuhaj.