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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 334675, member: 4626"]I love howthe Mint suggests there's a remote chance that some of the errors may have managed to get out anyway. I can almost hear them thinking "wink, wink... we'll be able to sell tons of these if people actually believe that..."</p><p><br /></p><p>I once had a physics teacher who posted the hypothetical: "Suppose 1 in every million grains of sand on the beach was pure gold. That means the beach literally has tons of it. Why wouldn't people be all over the beach, trying to cash in? Because once you figure in how long it would take to actually get enough gold to be worth any reasonable amount of money, it would cost more to get it than the gold is worth."</p><p><br /></p><p>There's probably going to be at least 100 million Monroe dollars. Do the math. Maybe you'll get lucky, but don't bet on it. Roll searching would just seem like a waste... it would be the equivalent of buying 100 lottery tickets to improve your chances of winning... 100 times 1 in 4 million is still only 1 in 40,000. You'd be spending a whole lot of time on the practically infintessimal chance of finding something you're not even sure actually exists. Have fun![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 334675, member: 4626"]I love howthe Mint suggests there's a remote chance that some of the errors may have managed to get out anyway. I can almost hear them thinking "wink, wink... we'll be able to sell tons of these if people actually believe that..." I once had a physics teacher who posted the hypothetical: "Suppose 1 in every million grains of sand on the beach was pure gold. That means the beach literally has tons of it. Why wouldn't people be all over the beach, trying to cash in? Because once you figure in how long it would take to actually get enough gold to be worth any reasonable amount of money, it would cost more to get it than the gold is worth." There's probably going to be at least 100 million Monroe dollars. Do the math. Maybe you'll get lucky, but don't bet on it. Roll searching would just seem like a waste... it would be the equivalent of buying 100 lottery tickets to improve your chances of winning... 100 times 1 in 4 million is still only 1 in 40,000. You'd be spending a whole lot of time on the practically infintessimal chance of finding something you're not even sure actually exists. Have fun![/QUOTE]
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