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Originally Posted by The Synergizer
Nobody cares about mathematics.
My math is much simpler. When the Powerball reaches or is close to $1 billion I spend $2. I want to be in the pool. I don't expect to win, but for sure I won't win if I don't buy one ticket.
I'd love to see the person the moment they checked their ticket and see they actually have all six numbers... The shock has to be off the charts, if it actually doesn't kill them..
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Well they do say a lottery is a tax on the mathematically illiterate. Youre betting that a fair coin comes up heads 28 times in a row, which is getting 10 heads in a row twice and then eight more times.
My theory is that we need the math here because the numbers are so large and so small that our intuitions cant make sense of them.
Its a spectacle that i can enjoy from a safe distance.