Talk:Charles Wells (gambler)
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Isn't this the guy that figured out that one of the roulette wheels was flawed and had a pattern to what numbers the ball landed on? I'm pretty sure it was like, he could be fairly sure if he dropped the ball in a specific place it would end up in a specific area of the wheel.
- No. You are thinking of Joseph Jagger JMcC 09:45, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
The odds of five consecutive bets paying off on a single number is 1 in 60,466,176, and that's without a house number. Though the odds are the same for any given number, such as five on five consecutive bets, the odds of that happening are so astronomical that Windows calculator runs out of digits, even with exponents, when I make the calculation. Ergo, Charles Wells was either cheating, or had some sort of arcane knowledge that allowed him to predict what would come up and when. I lean toward the former, but I can't discount the latter. Who was this guy, and how the hell did he pull of an apparent statistical miracle? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.163.166.197 (talk) 06:01, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
