Subj : talking to myself To : Maurice Kinal From : Russell Tiedt Date : Mon Mar 07 2005 08:10 pm Hello Maurice. 06 Mar 05 10:21, you wrote to me: RT>> No fash disks ... ... not yet ... MK> :-) I'll sucker you in yet. Probably ... :-) RT>>>> Need to win the lotto real good, :-) whats the possibilty of a RT>>>> perl script generating the winning numbers at 49 000 000 to 1. MK>>> My best guess would be the same odds of any{one,thing} just MK>>> picking the winning lottery numbers. Best of luck with that. RT>> I tend to agree with you .... :-( MK> Yeah. Still a well thought out Perl script based on statistics and MK> probabilities might be fun as well as educational. Well if one recorded the winning numbers over a few years, I reckon one could use that to significantly reduce the odds, maybe to about 15 000 000, but still to high to make it worthwhile playing with any degree of seriousness ... :-((( Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .