math – David Kryzaniak, LLC https://davekz.com The Trials and Tribulations of a Programming Ninja Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:22:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 43582094 Statistics: Winning the Lottery https://davekz.com/statistics-winning-the-lottery/ https://davekz.com/statistics-winning-the-lottery/#respond Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:22:53 +0000 http://www.davekz.com/?p=676 To my dismay, I didn't win the $636,000,000 MegaMillions lottery the other night. I guess I won't be buying a yacht anytime soon... According to the odds listed on the bottom of the of the ticket, there is a 1 in 258,890,850 change of winning. That number comes from a formula called the Combination Formula

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