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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 829307, member: 16510&quot;]No!&nbsp; Because your thinking is clinical and abstract and not applicable to the odds (in real life, or even in a dream) of the rarity of finding a doubled die coin.</p><p>You thinking could be stretched to having a tiny grain of truth for common minor doubled dies with full die life but no one will care, why, because again it is not applicable to real world situations and it concerns common full die life doubled dies.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Look I&#039;ve been around math people and accountants before and all data can be twisted and leaned to prove anything - this is what you have done.&nbsp; After working with MBA&#039;s in Govt. I quickly learned that at the end of the month white can be black and 100 can be 2 all it take is manipulation of data and different justifications for such.</p><p>When pushed to support an argument simply in numbers alone most anything can be twisted into the truth.</p><p>This is a great pitfall of many modern buisness practices.&nbsp; When a corporations priority&#039;s becomes tracking so-called buisness processes the numbers and processes suddenly become the goal, or job instead of original job itself.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You gave us information that was not needed and not true because you seperated it from the &quot;real world experience&quot; or odds of collectors chances of finding true doubled dies &quot;where we all have to find them&quot;!&nbsp; We don&#039;t find them in any of your cited examples.&nbsp; Not even one of your explanations is a real world situation we will face.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We search for a 1980-P Lincoln DDO-001 first in all cents and all dates that we can, could or have been obtained.&nbsp; That is any given roll, bags or box we can find within the United States.&nbsp; That is defined as a random bunch or portion of all of the billions of Lincoln cents that we could buy or somehow get on a given day anywhere.&nbsp; We can narrow the search by buying only 1980-P bank wrapped rolls or if they could be found bags but that is it!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lets pull out those real world chances &quot;that we search in&quot; and you tell me the odds given these.&nbsp; </p><p><b>&quot;in all cents, all dates that we can, could or have been obtained, </b><b>any given roll, bags or box we can find anywhere, </b><b>as a random bunch or portion of all of the billions of Lincoln cents that we could buy or somehow get on any given day anywhere, </b><b>narrow the search by buying only 1980-P bank wrapped rolls or if they could be found bags&quot;</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>We don&#039;t ever search as you suggest, we search the all, the can, the might, the given, the could, the availible, the random, the portion, the anywhere, the somehow, the billions, the if, but never do we or can we search the way you have citing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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