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Version Location Description Submitted By
Printed Page 5
5th paragraph

"if you add up those distances, you get a total that is as small as possible"

Counter example 0, 3 and 3 whose mean is two and total distance of all points is 4.
The total distance from point 3 is 3

Anonymous 
Printed Page 176
hack #41

This isn't so much an erratum as an omission. The analysis is fine so far as it goes, but it leaves out that if you lose you are out the money you paid, but if you win you only keep about 60% of the prize money since 40% goes to federal and state income taxes. That lowers the odds of winning by another 40% from the analysis in your hack #41 and makes lotteries a real fraud.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 272
Displayed equation in the middle of the page

In the summation you use the symbol "k", but you never explain what "k" is.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 285
5th paragraph (formula) - about 2/3s of the way down the page

The formula for the "Number of Possible Winning Combinations =" should be:

n!/k!(n - k)!

The book has k! in the numerator

Anonymous 


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