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...six numbers (from 0 to 60). I´m going to bet on the lotery today. :) Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
"Th@ langwagje is screwed! It has if's but no end if's!! Stupid php cant even do butuns on forms! VISHAUL BASICS ARE THE FUTSHURE!" - Simon Walton1 2 3 4 5 6 Assuming the probability of each number being chosen is equal, the above choices are as good as any. ;) --Mike-- If it doesn't move and it should: WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't: duct tape. 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Basically, you try to guess which random numbers will be selected on the drawing day. If you have X matching numbers you win money. PowerBall in the US has 6 numbers from 1-53 (or something around there) you purchase a ticket for $1 with your 6 guesses (these can generated by computer, or hand chosen) Every Wednesday and Saturday at 11PM EST, 6 winning numbers are picked(no duplicates). The odds are around 1:120,000,000 for the big prize, but its still sort of fun to play. If there is no winner, the prize grows for the following drawing. BW "If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." - Confucius
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Thomas George wrote: or what? I ran out of inspiration after the first three...
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Shog9 The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
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Shog9 The siren sings a lonely song - of all the wants and hungers The lust of love a brute desire - the ledge of life goes under
"owww, what a winning hand, she's a Brick... House." ( sorry. I had a senior moment there :rolleyes: )
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wow ! thanks..i am just thinking about the software behind all this..should be a great system to withstand such a heavy usage load..a great project to be working in :-) There are no failures; there are only extended learning opportunities.
There are currently 23 states involved in this game, and the store where the winning ticket was sold is known immediate after the drawing. Pretty impressive. BW "If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." - Confucius
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There are currently 23 states involved in this game, and the store where the winning ticket was sold is known immediate after the drawing. Pretty impressive. BW "If you enjoy what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." - Confucius
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...six numbers (from 0 to 60). I´m going to bet on the lotery today. :) Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
"Th@ langwagje is screwed! It has if's but no end if's!! Stupid php cant even do butuns on forms! VISHAUL BASICS ARE THE FUTSHURE!" - Simon WaltonYou've already got plenty of suggestions, so I'll just say "good luck". I would just choose random numbers (i.e. let the machine tha tissues the ticket choose for you, if that is possible over there). Never play a lottery hoping to win though - 'cause you won't - but if you play regularly and not really caring then you can walk away with quite a bit more than you actually spend on, say, a period of a year. We won four tenners *again* this week, and whilst we've never got the jackpot we did get five numbers once which was great (the third place prize).
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version 2 has a very high probability of winning the jackpot :-D My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers
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...six numbers (from 0 to 60). I´m going to bet on the lotery today. :) Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
"Th@ langwagje is screwed! It has if's but no end if's!! Stupid php cant even do butuns on forms! VISHAUL BASICS ARE THE FUTSHURE!" - Simon Walton12 22 34 38 55 59 Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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...six numbers (from 0 to 60). I´m going to bet on the lotery today. :) Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
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You've already got plenty of suggestions, so I'll just say "good luck". I would just choose random numbers (i.e. let the machine tha tissues the ticket choose for you, if that is possible over there). Never play a lottery hoping to win though - 'cause you won't - but if you play regularly and not really caring then you can walk away with quite a bit more than you actually spend on, say, a period of a year. We won four tenners *again* this week, and whilst we've never got the jackpot we did get five numbers once which was great (the third place prize).
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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Jeez... 5 numbers.. That's like me guessing your phone number and getting it right first time... ...0131 2932948? Am I close? I used to play the lottery until someone pointed this out to me and it blew me a way. I guess 14,000,000 to 1 doesn't mean much until it is put in context!! www.beachwizard.com/travelogue[^] "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" George Best.
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i have been seeing this on the tv for quite sometime now..can someone give me a brief tutorial about how this is actually played ?? There are no failures; there are only extended learning opportunities.
How it is played: Pick 5 numbers between 1-53 (order is not important, no duplicates). Pick a powerball number between 1-42. If you match all numbers, you win the jackpot. The statistical odds per ticket are 53*52*51*50*49/5/4/3/2*42 (if I did my math right) = 1 in 120,526,770. If two or more people match the number, they split the jackpot. If you win, the money is heavily taxed and the prize amount is the total dollar amount payed out over 20 years. Hence, $20 million jackpot actually means $1 million per year for $20 years - which, if you are accounting for depreciation, is worth less than $20 million. You can get a lump sum payment. The latest winner won $315 million - which he took in a lump sum payment of (after taxes) of (I think) $110 million. He was lucky enough not to have to share the prize. A $1 ticket with a 1 in 120 million odds payed $110 million. If you do the math, it is *on average* slightly less than break-even (and that doesn't take into account the possibility that you might have to share it, which would reduce the prize value). There was probably $200 million+ spent on trying to win the $110 million. ------------------------------------------ "Isn't it funny how people say they'll never grow up to be their parents, then one day they look in the mirror and they're moving aircraft carriers into the Gulf region?" - The Onion
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Jeez... 5 numbers.. That's like me guessing your phone number and getting it right first time... ...0131 2932948? Am I close? I used to play the lottery until someone pointed this out to me and it blew me a way. I guess 14,000,000 to 1 doesn't mean much until it is put in context!! www.beachwizard.com/travelogue[^] "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered" George Best.
I never gave any guarantees, but just like being hit by a bus there is a teeny wheeny possibility in there, and whilst not playing will guarantee that you never win a penny, donating a little spare cash each week to the lottery does no harm. I don't mind making other people richer on the possiblity (I am tempted to use "probability" here instead based on what I have personally experienced) I'll mkae a little extra cash each year in return. Obviously not everyone will get winning numbers each draw (twice a week, we don't play the "extra" or "thunderball" draws, only the standard game) but someone somewhere will. Like I said, we don't play to win and we don't even give it a second thought (we choose "lucky dip" numbers each draw, and buy about three or four tickets each draw depending on the spare change available). adamUK wrote: I guess 14,000,000 to 1 doesn't mean much until it is put in context!! Statistics - you know what they say about them don't you? The game only works because people instinctively gamble when the odds are so very very high, not necessarily with any hope of winning but on the chance that in this pool of unknown we live in all sorts of crazy shit happens. I personally know a guy who put ten pounds on a horse at 100-1 and ninety pounds on a horse 2-1. He walked away with £1010 that day. Life is a big gamble, and as they say it is the taking part that counts: the rush we get from being so close. Any man who plays a lottery on such a scale with any real image of hope is a fool, but any man who dismisses all chance because of that is an even bigger one.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
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