A Conversation for Binomial Theorem
Asteroids
26199 Started conversation Jun 25, 2001
So... you're more likely to be hit by an asteroid than to win the lottery?
Does this mean that there are asteroid-related fatalities nearly every week? After all, most weeks someone manages to win the lottery...
Or have I interpreted that bit wrong?
26199
(nice article, by the way)
Asteroids
Woodpigeon Posted Jun 25, 2001
I think somebody somewhere did a calculation that suggested that if an asteroid impact did happen, lots and lots of people would win that particular "lottery", i.e. auto-vaporise, and so, equalised over 100,000 years or so, the numbers affected would be greater than all the lottery winners put together. Or something like that. 
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Jun 25, 2001
Like all statistics, it depends on how you look at it 
*still fuming cos his A level maths exams were so difficult*
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26199 Posted Jun 25, 2001
Ah, right... I was thinking meteorites. Asteroids are the big ones, aren't they?
26199
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GreyDesk Posted Jun 25, 2001
I won ten quid last week, does this mean that we are all about to die
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Jun 25, 2001
*screams and throws himself under the table as a large pile of iron/nickle slag lands on the gazeebo*
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Don't Buy Vardy Cars Posted Jun 26, 2001
Another researcher has mentioned the Moriarty connection with respect to the Binomial Theorem. It should also be noted that Professor Moriarty was also the author of a work called 'The Dynamics of an Asteroid'.
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- 1: 26199 (Jun 25, 2001)
- 2: Woodpigeon (Jun 25, 2001)
- 3: Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) (Jun 25, 2001)
- 4: 26199 (Jun 25, 2001)
- 5: GreyDesk (Jun 25, 2001)
- 6: Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) (Jun 25, 2001)
- 7: Don't Buy Vardy Cars (Jun 26, 2001)
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