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Old Oct 11, 2006, 10:42 am   #10 (permalink) (top)
Fonceai
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@Lullaby

I think you bring up something interesting in Post #5.

The odds on a die roll are 1 in 6. If you choose 4 and I choose 5, and it lands on 4, you were as equally lucky as I was unlucky.

If you successfully guess correctly the next 99 die rolls, someone could say that are incredibly lucky, having beaten the 1 in 6^100 odds.

Or someone could just say you beat the 1 in 6 odds, 100 times.

The association with luck is derived from the consistency of beating the odds. A series of fortunate events.

Luck is just a word for the phenomenon of repeated success. I don't think it's actually some mystical force.
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