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Old 07-28-2007, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Chas H View Post
This is correct. But this is not the way the lotteries I have seen are conducted. Are we still talking lottery?
I've never run a lottery and I don't know whether they have a set of rules. Good points.

I assumed that they draw without replacement but from separate bins (that's how I'd do it if I ran the damned thing!). If they draw without replacement from the same bin then the n-1, n-2 ... certainly holds.
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