MixedNuts comments on The Cognitive Science of Rationality - Less Wrong

88 Post author: lukeprog 12 September 2011 08:48PM

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Comment author: komponisto 11 September 2011 06:39:13PM *  3 points [-]

This is an unfortunate shortening of "a million to one against", which would be correct.

Comment author: MixedNuts 14 January 2012 10:47:33AM 1 point [-]

I thought that "a million to one" always meant "a million to one against", and you had to specify "a million to one on" when necessary.