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What Are The Chances Of Finding Any Fancy Serial Number?

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Found my first radar today!

Anyways, the question is what are the odds of finding one of any collectable serial number all of them combined into one fraction? Can someone do the math for me please?

This link has the odds for each but not for all of them combined.
https://www.coolserialnumbers.com/H...lNumbers.pdf

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here are the results from some random site I found for adding fractions

(Decimal: 0.000746)
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Sorry, math is above my pay grade
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It DOES happen - I work as a tour guide and got this among my tips from an American cruise ship passenger in July 2022:
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Lovely note NumisRob.


Quote:
what are the odds of finding one of any collectable serial number all of them combined into one fraction?


Using the article you provided that answer to your question is 32,688/99,999,999.

This is the same as 1:3059 (1 fancy serial number in every 3,059 random notes).
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Thanks guys!
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