In the immortal words of Mr Ian Dury, of the above named group, "There ain't half been some clever bastards".
So maybe someone here will be able to answer me something.
In the UK, we have a National Lottery.
You have to choose any 6 numbers (from 0 - 49) pay your quid and cross your fingers.
The odds against all six being drawn are put at something over 14m to 1.
I'm no mathematician, so I take their word for it.
What I'm not so sure about is a friend's assertion that the odds of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 appearing in the same draw (appearing in any sort of numerical order is irrelevant) is equal to any other combination of 6 random numbers.
Is he correct?
Noel Coward was a charmer.
As a writer he was a brahma.
Velvet jackets and pyjamas,
"the gay divorce" and other dramas.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Einstein can't be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Probably got help from their mum
(who had help from her mum).
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Now that we've had some,
let's hope that there's lots more to come.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Okey-dokey!
Oh!
Segovia.
Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee
De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever........
..................................bastards.
So maybe someone here will be able to answer me something.
In the UK, we have a National Lottery.
You have to choose any 6 numbers (from 0 - 49) pay your quid and cross your fingers.
The odds against all six being drawn are put at something over 14m to 1.
I'm no mathematician, so I take their word for it.
What I'm not so sure about is a friend's assertion that the odds of numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 appearing in the same draw (appearing in any sort of numerical order is irrelevant) is equal to any other combination of 6 random numbers.
Is he correct?
Noel Coward was a charmer.
As a writer he was a brahma.
Velvet jackets and pyjamas,
"the gay divorce" and other dramas.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers.
He must have been a pencil squeezer.
He didn't do the Mona Lisa,
That was an Italian geezer.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Einstein can't be classed as witless.
He claimed atoms were the littlest.
When you did a bit of splitting-em-ness
Frighten everybody shitless
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Probably got help from their mum
(who had help from her mum).
There ain't half been some clever bastards.
Now that we've had some,
let's hope that there's lots more to come.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bas-tards.
Okey-dokey!
Oh!
Segovia.
Da-laa la-laa da-daa da-lee
De dump di dump de dump-dump-diddle li-lee.
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever bastards
(Lucky bleeders, lucky bleeders)
There ain't half been some clever........
..................................bastards.
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