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Prismatic wrote:
Math has nothing to do with lottery numbers. … Not everything is math that has numbers on it.
"I disagree. Math does have something to do with lottery numbers.
Take the California Lottery Mega Millions—the largest jackpot in the lottery. To win you must have picked six two digit numbers matching those drawn from the box. The total number of possibilities then is roughly 10
12 = 1,000,000,000,000 = 1 trillion. Chances of winning are very, very small.[/quote]
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Yes, it can tell us that winning is almost impossible. What we deal with in lottery is 36 or 53 balls or any other amount there is: numbers on them only depict amount of them, while one, two, three could be written in words, or in hieroglyphics , or balls could be all just of different color, or have faces of American presidents. When people start creating formulas, relations between numbers, like in math, it will not help to win. I am saying this because many people out there try to do just that. Stop waisting your time. Every game there is certain set amount of balls falling out; six, five, etc. If nothing is attached to them, no numbers or other identification, it is most boring thing in a world: six identical balls falling out every game. Only cats can enjoy it.
-- Updated Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:42 pm to add the following --
Also, similarly to lottery, if one man envisions dating , say, 36 women, and, say, dating 6 particular women among them can make him really rich ( while women keep it in secret), then he still has to date enormous amount of groups of women among those 36 to hit the winning combination. Dating women is more expensive than buying lottery tickets, plus each has her own character, etc. Thus, hitting perfect combination of women to date is a lot harder than winning lottery, in an abstract way, of course. In real life one would know if a woman is rich or not, or if he can love her or not, or if he's her type.