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Are You 1 in 1,000,000?

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Re: Are You 1 in 1,000,000?

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post #10

Once you have submit, you can refresh the page. This won't regenerate a number but increase the loser or number count. I guess it's a bug because once some one will win, the guy could just keep refreshing and increase the count of Win by a lot... and for the moment it's pretty easy to increment the count of loss just by refreshing the wrong value.

Thanks, will fix.

Re: Are You 1 in 1,000,000?

#12
There are billions of women on this planet.

One drop of sperm contains hundreds of millions of spermatozoa.

So the answer is no. I am not one in a million. I am much less likely than that.

Not that it makes me special in any kind of way, it's not as if I was the only one.

Re: Are You 1 in 1,000,000?

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post #9
post #7

Suggest renaming to are you 1 in 1,000 or so at current traffic rates.

But then the name would not be accurate.

I am currently one in 7 billion if you want to be precise, but for that website to work you'd have to have enough traffic to make someone a winner every now and then. At the current traffic rates that's going to be too long between winners to make it work. Most likely 30 days from now that homepage will look the same as it does today.

So take it down a few orders of magnitude, reserve the other domains and build it up from there, switch to higher magnitude domains as appropriate.

I can see a slight problem with botnet herders gaming the system too.

Re: Are You 1 in 1,000,000?

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post #12

There are billions of women on this planet. One drop of sperm contains hundreds of millions of spermatozoa. So the answer is no. I am not one in a million. I am much less likely than that. Not that it makes me special in any kind of way, it's not as if I was the only one.

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Re: Are You 1 in 1,000,000?

#18
I kind of like the high number and how long it will take to find a "winner". Allows whoever wins to spread word about something they want (hopefully something clever) and it will be there for a while. The website would lose its meaning if the winner changed every day.
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