• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Except their chances are infinitely higher than yours. It’s miniscule, but miniscule and finite is infinitely bigger than zero. Math gets funky around the edge cases

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      11 months ago

      Not really, the chances to find a winning ticket of a lottery walking on the street is almost comparable

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        11 months ago

        The chances of finding a winning ticket on the street are many orders of magnitude lower. How often do you find unredeemed lottery tickets walking on the street? I never have, the most I’ve seen are losing scratch-offs.

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          11 months ago

          The difference is still comparable.

          That is how low you stand a chance of winning.

          Want to see it in numbers? Last year people in the US spend 105 billion on lottery tickets. Meaning, you have 1 chance in 403 846 153 to win. If you played every week, it would take you 7 766 272 year to win. And even that isn’t certain.

          In math: 1 = 0,9999999999