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  Re: Preposterously simple stat question
 
(...) Then I can say with confidence that we've been picking the same numbers all this time. Dave! (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Preposterously simple stat question
 
It doesn't matter what numbers you choose...as long as you don't choose the same numbers I do (you would be destined to lose if you did). -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Preposterously simple stat question
 
(...) Often, I'm told, birthdays and anniversaries are the source of a lot of lotto-style picks. If so, numbers 1-12 are very common, and 13-31 are more common. 32-40, not being easy date numbers, are thus more rare. (19 years ago, 22-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Preposterously simple stat question
 
(...) Intuitively I sensed that numbers-is-numbers, but I couldn't logic it out enough to settle my brain on the matter. Thanks for the clarification! Dave! (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Preposterously simple stat question
 
(...) Statistically, assuming it's a fair draw, there should be no difference, as this is a draw with replacement (each time you start drawing 6 numbers, all 40 are there) at the start of the draw, between any 6 numbers. Non statistically, that is, (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Preposterously simple stat question
 
Assume a weekly lottery that draws six numbers from the series 1 through 40, with no duplicates. Statistically speaking, am I better off repeatedly playing the same six numbers selecting six numbers at random each week? It seems to me that if (in a (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Thoughts?
 
(...) Update - I don't know why this piqued my interest, but it did. Anyway, Googling for PIC16F876 and CD4066BCM brought up a couple of interesting pages. Some of the images came from (URL) this page> on DansData web site. There's also a (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 16-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
 
  Re: Working with Excel and XML?
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lar(at@at)miltontra...t.dot)com> wrote in message news:IHx8rs.1Er8@lugnet.com... (...) contents of (...) headers) (...) XML (...) Excel XML (...) into (...) put (...) if you (...) that (...) Thanks for the suggestions. I had (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Working with Excel and XML?
 
(...) I use Excel to generate HTML tags all the time. But I'm not using the Excel XML process myself, I am just using formulas to get the contents of tables into tagged HTML One thing that bites me somewhat regularly is the fact that Excel wants to (...) (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Working with Excel and XML?
 
(...) Probably simpler to have excel save it as a CSV and use perl or somesuch to transform the CSV into XML. That's assuming the webapp couldn't be made to import the CSV directly... (19 years ago, 11-Jun-05, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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