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feyd
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by feyd » Sun Sep 17, 2006 3:30 pm
Same number of tickets across multiple drawings of the same lottery, the odds are the same.
onion2k
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by onion2k » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:13 pm
feyd wrote: Same number of tickets across multiple drawings of the same lottery, the odds are the same.
Are you saying that buying 1 ticket a week for 100 weeks has the same odds as buying 100 tickets for 1 week? Coz that's not true.
Extrapolate it to buying 14 million tickets and you'll see why.
feyd
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by feyd » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:18 pm
No, I said purchasing the same number of tickets for each drawing has equal odds for each drawing.
This has no bearing on the same total quantity of tickets purchased over a variable number of drawings.
alex.barylski
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by alex.barylski » Sun Sep 17, 2006 4:22 pm
feyd wrote: nickvd wrote: can i borrow 100 grand?
Sure.
You can keep it.
ROFLMAO
Thats was great