Jason Nishiyama (npub1mqd…gc2v)
OK. Um.. you may correct me.
Until I was nearly 30 years old, all I could claim was the edu of a 12 y.o. I could just fix things. Who I am.
I did write the actual provincial exams, did some college and first year sciences, but very late in life. Board repairs and coding came first. I'm just backwards.
Anyhow, it really bothers me when I see people buy multiple 6/49 tickets. Why are you hucking money away?‽‽
How I look at the problem, please tell me how wrong I am:
Initial condition: you don't have a lottery ticket. Odds are *nearly* infinity to one against you, because you may find a ticket or someone may gift you. In the case of the 6/49, nCr1 tells us that your odds are nearly 14mm to one, if you buy a ticket.
So.
(not quibbling about which def. of infinity)
If you buy a ticket for 2 or 3 or w/e dollars (IDK), then you can bring the odds down from infinity to one down to *only* 14 million to one!!
Well!
That's a big deal.
Infinity:one down to
14mm:one
Awesome.
Put that in your back pocket and dream my son.
But, you could spend more.
You could buy another ticket.
Now you are
14mm:2 instead of 14mm:1
Oh my.
and then they buy twenty tickets.
Now they are at 14mm:20
I just want to hug them. Stroke their hair, pat their hands...
Poor things.
[1] https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/maths/ncr-formula/
Emeritus Prof Christopher May (npub12pw…zvxn)
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