Mordred wrote:Hockey wrote:..but your odds increase each time you play...
This is not true, your odds are exactly the same however often you play.
I am not aware of any particular statistics about lottary winners and players, but an uneducated guess would be (as proposed by someone above) the demographics are skewed towards the people of and above middle age. Lottary winners are of course equally distributed, but only
among the players, which means that people of and above middle age will stand out.
Are you serious?
I'm not the greatest in math...clearly...as I would be arguing by now
But...how does that work?
You absolutely won't win if you don't play....so how does buying 100,000 tickets as compared to zero *not* increase your odds of winning???
Doesn't the lottery system work on something like.
You pick a combination of numbers and when you get all of them right, you win the jackpot.
Permutations and combinations (if I remember correctly) allow you to calculate the number of possible combinations.
If the letters you were allowed to pick were:
A or B
And you were only allowed to use two at any time:
If you were allowed to use one character or both:
6 combinations are possible...
Where I live the popular game is called 6/49 where you are allowed to choose 6 numbers each ranging from 1-49
32, 36, 13, 8, 23, 23 Is an example set or whatever...
You odds of winning are: 13, 841, 287, 201 or basically getting struck by lightning...
Thats if you play the game once...your odds of winning if you don't play at all are ZERO.
Where I get confused is, I'm not sure if whether you use completely different numbers or just one in each game you play, whether it increases your odds greatly or not.
By playing:
Code: Select all
32, 36, 13, 8, 23, 23
AND
32, 36, 13, 12, 23, 23
Your odds would naturally be increased by ONE as there is ONE less set which the lottery system can return and *not* have you win. At least this is what makes sense to me with my limited knowledge of mathematics
I have only ever read up on this when trying to better understand encryption...so I ain't promising anything as this subject is pretty cplicated, at least for those who do not understand it anyways.
So explain to me, how the more you play doesn't affect your odds of winning??? I'm seriously bewildered by that claim...
It's like the proverbial coin toss scenario...a coin has 2 sides and in theory I don't think it matters how many times you flip the coin, you have a 50/50 chance of getting either side...
Of course this excludes natural forces which influence odds, such as which side of the coin was facing up when flipped, how hard you flipped the coin, etc...
I haven't read anything on this subject in a long while...this is completely off the roof of my head, so I sologize if I'm way off and sound like a Gr. 3 math student
You have me wondering though...as my understanding is poor, all I know has been through self education, so my understanding is likely off...
Anyone know anything they care to share in real laymen terms???
Cheers
