{"id":6168,"date":"2014-07-23T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T14:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2014-07-23T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T14:05:42","slug":"i-love-mathematics-not-really-but-this-is-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=6168","title":{"rendered":"I LOVE MATHEMATICS  (not really, but this is pretty good)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE MATHEMATICS<br \/>\nIT ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH<br \/>\nAND IT ALWAYS TELLS IT THE SAME WAY<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning the Florida lottery are 1 in 22,957,480.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning the Powerball is 1 in 175,223,510.<\/p>\n<p>The odds of winning Mega Millions is 1 in 258,890,850.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The odds of a disk drive failing in any given month are roughly one in\u00a036. The odds of two different drives failing in the same month are roughly\u00a0one in 36 squared, or 1 in about 1,300. The odds of three drives failing\u00a0in the same month is 36 cubed or 1 in 46,656.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The odds of seven different drives failing in the same month (like what\u00a0happened at the IRS when they received a letter asking about emails\u00a0targeting conservative and pro Israeli groups) is 37 to the 7th power = 1\u00a0in 78,664,164,096. (that&#8217;s over 78 Billion) In other words, the odds are\u00a0greater that you will win the Florida Lottery 342 times than having those\u00a0seven IRS hard drives crashing in the same month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I LOVE MATHEMATICS IT ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH AND IT ALWAYS TELLS IT THE SAME WAY The odds of winning the Florida lottery are 1 in 22,957,480. The odds of winning the Powerball is 1 in 175,223,510. The odds of winning Mega Millions is 1 in 258,890,850. \u00a0The odds of a disk drive failing in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=6168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I LOVE MATHEMATICS  (not really, but this is pretty good)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6169,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6168\/revisions\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}