# Calculating Odds

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calculating-odds/66393>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 25, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calculating-odds/66393 "2006-08-25T05:49:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![curi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@curi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/curi)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calculating-odds/66393/1 "2006-08-25T05:49:55Z")

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I used Ruby to calculate which team will win Warcraft 3 matches  
(which people (not me) actually bet money on). It’s short and simple.  
Maybe someone will find the code useful to adapt to calculate the  
odds of something else.

Blog entry:

[http://www.curi.us/blog/2006/08/4k-vs-mym.html](http://www.curi.us/blog/2006/08/4k-vs-mym.html)

Code:

[http://curi.us/code/4k-vs-mym.html](http://curi.us/code/4k-vs-mym.html)

– Elliot T.

> **[Curiosity Blog – Elliot Temple](https://www.curi.us/blog/)**
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