01-14-2016, 09:18 PM
(01-14-2016, 07:59 PM)Devils Advocate Wrote: Did you purchase 132 lottery tickets?
Some advice for lottery players,
Buying a few dozen or a few hundred tickets will not increase your chances of winning. Unless you purchase a few hundred million tickets, your chances are just as good if you only purchase one ticket.
By spending $132 on lottery tickets, you've successfully increased your chances of winning by about .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%. You're chances prolly ain't even that good.
Save your money next time and only buy one ticket or at most, one random number and one number you choose.
This is completely wrong. It does increase the chances of winning, although still practically zero. 2 tickets are essentially twice as likely to win and 100 tickets are 100 times as likely, and so on. The smartest number to buy based probability is and always will be zero, but your odds do increase proportional to the number of tickets purchased.
