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Old Sun Jan 15, 2012, 11:29am
Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. is offline
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Originally Posted by Scrapper1 View Post


You inadvertently reversed this, right? It might not be probable, but it is possible.

Right?

(If something is not possible, then it cannot be probable.)

No, I didn't. Anything is possible but probablities fall under the area of mathematics called statistics. (In this political season remember what Mark Twains said: "There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics." )

The probablity of something occuring could range from 0.0 to 1.0 (read: 0% to 100%). The probablity of this situation happening is (and I am just guessing here) 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,...,001, and it could even be smaller or larger.

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