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Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Ok, I have been working on this for a while and I have nothing.

Can someone explain to me how you can draw 4 balls, numbered 1-14 and from that, get a 4 digit numer?

That makes no sense whatsoever.

Ok, found this. Bizarre,but makes sense now I guess:

http://mirtle.blogspot.ca/2008/03/ho...aft-works.html

Fourteen balls, numbered 1 to 14, were placed in a lottery machine. The machine expelled four balls, forming a series of numbers. The four-digit series resulting from the expulsion of the balls was matched against a probability chart that divided the possible combinations among the 14 participating clubs. The chart showed that the Blues had been assigned the numbers (11-14-13-1) that were expelled.

By finishing dead last, St. Louis received 25 per cent of the 1,001 combinations possible in this system, while the second-last team, Pittsburgh, received 18.8 per cent of them.