Actually it was Ronnie who brought up splitting the numbers in half using an easy to identify group of 28 numbers. At best my contribution was pointing out there are several octillion groups of 28 numbers and many of them had and will have better of odds of five of those numbers being drawn than probability.
"You are like those economists that are helping the president to set economic policies."
I'm not into politics especially on Lottery site but if the economy is so bad, why do I need a reservation at my favorite restaurants?
If all the doom and gloom I'm reading is true, there shouldn't be people waiting to be served and the place should be virtually empty or probably out of business.
"We would never see any logical person betting $98k plus on every mega milliions or powerball drawing in order to match 5+1."
Oh really?
That would be chump change to the Australian syndicate that tried to buy all 7 million possible combos in the Virginia 6/44 lotto game in 1992.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/25/us/group-invests-5-million-to-hedge-bets-in-lottery.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Or how about the groups that bought $600,000 worth of tickets several times over a 7-year period in Massachusetts' Cash WinFall game?
https://www.lotterypost.com/news/249164
"Why play the lottery if you can afford to spend $98k plus on 18 drawings like Ronnie did in order to match 5+1."
If the economy is that bad, there is no way any investment group or an individual is going to get the same 800% return on their money as Ronnie did in only 9 weeks. And the question of whether or not it was logistically possible to play 100,000 combos was answered by the Arizona Lottery.
"Remember when the MM jackpot reached $640M?"
Yes I do and an approximate 635 million losing $1 tickets were in trash cans the next day.