Lottery Math

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RJOh — Sun, 02 Jun 2002 14:03:23 GMT

Another way to look at the math when you play the Biggame is while the overall odds of picking the winning combination is 1:135,145,920, the odds of winning at least $2 is 1:43, so your odds of getting your dollar back is 1:22. Not bad for a chance at being a millionare.RJOh

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Guest — Sun, 02 Jun 2002 03:44:41 GMT

I don't know what you saw Yank, but I had seen something like it here http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_6_00.html

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Guest — Sun, 02 Jun 2002 03:34:36 GMT

Naw, if the 6/40 odds are 4 million to one and you buy two tickets each faces off against 2 million combinations, buy 4 tickets odds are a million to one, 8 tickets half a million to one, 16 tickets a quarter million to one, 32 tickets well you get my drift. Good copy and paste, where'd that come from Motley Fool or other fool source? It used to be part of an article why a thousand tickets or one ticket had zero odds of winning.

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CASH Only — Sun, 02 Jun 2002 00:18:12 GMT

Your info apparently has Powerball available in the Keystone State now.

Reply #2

Guest — Sat, 01 Jun 2002 23:52:44 GMT

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mark — Sat, 01 Jun 2002 22:11:37 GMT

you post best numbers to play for june, and then you post postings like this, you have me in a whirl wind.

Lottery Math

Guest — Sat, 01 Jun 2002 21:01:52 GMT

http://www.psn.net/xocxoc/math/rawdata.htmLottery MathIs it better to play 50 dollars one week, or one dollar for fifty weeks?The odds of a Lotto style lottery can be found with the formula: n! / (n - r)! r! where n is the highest numbered ball and r is the number of balls chosen. This is called in math a combination. An easier way to think about it is if there are 40 balls and 6 are chosen, there are 40 possible numbers that can come up first, leaving 39 that can come up second, then 38, 37,