Odds of hitting 8 black on roulette

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That is a very small number indeed, roughly three billionths only.

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Therefore the probability that the same number comes up six times in a row is: During the course of the American Roulette, number ten occurred even six times in a row! The probability of such (successive) events is determined by a multiplication of individual events. The longest reliable series was registered at the hotel El San Chuan in Puerto Rico on 9 June 1959. There is no doubt that it is a great coincidence when the same number comes up again and again. The probability that any single number occurs is 1/37 in French Roulette and 1/38 in American Roulette (there are 36 numbers + zero + double zero in American Roulette). Record Occurrence of a Single Number in Roulette

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