October 21st, 2005
You don’t want to waste your money playing the lottery with these numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.
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October 21st, 2005 at 7:47 pm
*giggles* I don’t even watch the show. Of course, neither do I play the lottery. Sometimes I have a wishful thought about it, though. ;)
October 21st, 2005 at 8:56 pm
I play the lottery only on rare occasions, maybe a few times a year. It’s just for the fun of it, and that slim chance of winning. I use a criterion I learned back in probability class: if the payoff times the probability of winning is greater than the cost of entry, then - on average - it’s worth doing. In other words, if a lottery ticket is one dollar, and the probability of winning is one in fifty million, then I don’t play unless the jackpot is more than fifty million dollars. When you play only a few times a year, this calculation is meaningless, but it at least establishes a guideline.