• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know about that lottery specifically, but surely the tickets cost more than $1 then? The payout is usually less than the cost of buying every ticket. There’s an interesting chapter in Alex’s adventures in numberland about this, about how a mathematician actually did this, but was only able to do it because the prize had rolled over from multiple draws, ordinarily it would not be viable.