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Baroque Bloke |
Simple arithmetic… “A retired couple who won $26 million [$8M, actually] playing state lotteries by using simple arithmetic could have a Hollywood movie made of their incredible story. Jerry and Marge Selbee made millions winning various state lottery games over six years and helped others in their home town of Evart, Michigan, beat the system. The pair sold the convenience store they had run for 17 years in 2003, when Mr Selbee made the discovery that changed their lives. He has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Western Michigan University and when he saw a brochure for a new lottery called Winfall, he realized within minutes how to beat the odds. The unique feature he cracked was the 'roll down', which was when no one won the $5 million jackpot and the money was then spread across those who matched five, four and three numbers…” https://mol.im/a/6639765 Serious about crackers | ||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
I read a long article about this guy last year. Very interesting. I will try to find it and post the link. EDIT: Here is the article I mentioned.This message has been edited. Last edited by: CoolRich59, _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
I wonder if he is related to the constipated mathematician who worked it out with a pencil? When I play (rarely) I just "quick pick" but I never win  ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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You mean, Dr. Gunter Zooloft? The one who almost solved Carmichael's totient conjecture? Regards, P. | |||
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They were featured on 60 Minutes last night | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
A conjecture on Euler's totient function. IMO, Leonhard Euler was the greatest mathematician ever. Euler's zeta function, and Riemann’s conjecture about its complex form… Astounding. Serious about crackers | |||
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How do you buy thousands of unique tickets. Or do you just hope quick pick does not give repeats. | |||
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| Help! Help! I'm being repressed!  |
MIT has an interesting history in gambling. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
You would hope it's random. They were just playing on the times when the payout was better than what the odds should dictate. This is different than when the jackpot payout is bigger than the odds then the strategy is to buy all possible permutations of the numbers because for sure one of them will hit the jackpot. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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All the zeros of R(z)=1 may not lie upon the line. They are said to be 'nervous' the farther out one looks.  | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
^^^^^^^^ It’ll make the number theorists really nervous if any of the zeros is nervous enough to escape x = 1/2. Serious about crackers | |||
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Indeed, the /2 was omitted in haste. I long ago purchased and still own an entire treatise on Herr Doktor Riemann's enigma, but not from the number theorists' perspective, the algebraeists flavor of whom I later battled so fruitlessly that I re-oriented my entire professional life to far more productive (and far improved remuneratively) endeavors. My academic heritage was via David Hilbert.  | |||
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You all seem to be having a great time but I feel worse than when I opened the thread.  Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
I like turtles... _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Yeah. Me too. Once I got past "mathematician wins lottery", it all started going over my apparently pointy head. | |||
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x = ??? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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| Stop Talking, Start Doing |
All you have to do is add two and then subtract four from the previous drawing’s numbers _______________ Mind. Over. Matter. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
He didn't "beat" the lottery. He did realize that under the distribution rules of this particular game, that the odds got considerably better at a certain point, and bought tickets in that game. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Using any kind of mathematical strategy to win in a casino will, at the very least, get you kicked out of it. In other words, you are penalized for playing the games too well. | |||
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Well, in one sense if you are able to consistently make money when gambling you are beating the odds, so he did "beat" the lottery. That is not to say he did anything wrong or illegal. ------------------------------ "They who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin "So this is how liberty dies; with thunderous applause." - Senator Amidala (Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith) | |||
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