With the bat and the ball, the numbers I've had have been pretty good.
This year, the officials who oversee Powerball, a game consisting of five numbered white balls and one red ball, reduced the number of red balls to 35 from 39.
This can be thought of as enforcing a division of labor between cause and chance: The domain of cause includes the structures of the urn and the balls, the number and colors of the balls, the way the balls are shuffled between draws and so on.
The Administration may low-ball the number of such collateral casualties - the real numbers are likely far higher than the Administration has reluctantly conceded - but the existence of such collateral damage is not itself in dispute.
If it uses a series of plastic balls, the number of balls that can float indicates how well your antifreeze protects the engine from freeze-up or boil over.
For the experiment of drawing balls from an urn containing black and red balls, R, the number of red balls drawn, is a random variable.
Instead of the orange ball, the bank's identity will be represented by Capital One's red-and-blue logo, with the addition of a red ball enclosing the number "360" with a sideways chevron.
It was going smoothly enough last night when a ball with the number 6 came up, followed by another, with a 0, and a third carrying the number 8.
You have to be able to get the ball past the number 12 to ignite the backline," he said.
"Some players would do this more than others and you could analyse this based on their possession, their other actions with the ball and the number of high intensity runs they make.
