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'random' number selection (Thu Jan 3 02:43:45 2002 )
Requiem [View profile ]
http://www.geocities.com/fammedelanuit
gwenb@student.umass.edu

you thought I meant winners so 6 would invariably 
win?  oh my poor hands... and eyes.. and skin 
after all that painting!  But think of it this 
way, the last digit was the only thing that 
didn't overlap in the times of two of the three 
first correct entries, and it was completely 
random in and of itself that Kari got the high 
number, 6.  I didn't want to be anything but 
vague about the 'what's your favorite number' 
else someone might have figured out my plot, and 
that wouldn't have been fair.  I could have just 
as easily done something like add up the digits 
in the times and award the prize to the highest 
sum or something like that, which might seem less 
fixed to you, but statistically, would have been 
just as random.  If the number 6 was the natural 
choice, each person had a one in ten chance of 
getting it.  ^_~ I've taken way too much math for 
it to be good for me.

As for the site that was down... well, I tried to 
get the most sturdy sites possible by staying 
away from geocities and using anything that was a 
domain name on its own as much as possible, but, 
well, never bet your life on the internet.  

The fact that half the people who were able to 
get me correct lists were able to give me the 
addy from a downed site only proves to me that... 
well damn, they know their stuff and they 
*really* do deserve their prizes



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