Posted by: soul_survivor March 31, 2012
Half Billion Dollar
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@ Trust Raj, your calculation of Total number of combination is wrong !!!

It is 1 in 175 mil (around) indeed, not your 21 billion & yes, you can be a GURANTEED winner if you play 175 mil of tickets with all possible combination. I think Lottery commission has certain rule about how many tickets one can play & more than that, it s not realistic to play 180 mil of tickets. For instance, if it takes 5 sec to fill 6 bubbles, you would need 28 days to fill 180 mil tickets & that will take 3 days to print tickets for 300 employee with 300 lotto machines  lol (rough calculation)

Combinations is simple: [(56*55*54*53*52)/(5*4*3*2*1)]*46 = roughly 175 mil ....not 21 bil

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