The Odds Are Stacked Against Us
Two basketball players face a towering stack of odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, … 2n+1: the odds are literally stacked against them.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-01-01-the-odds-are-stacked-against-us/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[A tower of odd numbers stacked on each other: 1, 3, 5, …, 2n+1] A (holding a basketball): "We can win this, right?" B: "I dunno. The odds are stacked against us."