Saturday, October 30, 2010

How Do You Like Those Odds?

Probability fans will no doubt have had a field day with this story about an Israeli lottery that drew the same 6 numbers as had come up 3 weeks earlier! Investigators claim there was no rigging of the results, which of course wouldn't be required for this to happen; it's just really, really unlikely!

Of course, if there were shenanigans involved, it's not like those who waste their money on lotteries don't sort of have it coming to them anyway.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You mean the "Voluntary Taxation for the Mathematically Challenged"