Comment on You can't win the lottery
Muninn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The way I see it, is that by never trying, I have statistically about the same chances of winning as someone playing.
Comment on You can't win the lottery
Muninn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The way I see it, is that by never trying, I have statistically about the same chances of winning as someone playing.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 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
gimsy@feddit.it 11 months ago
Not really, the chances to find a winning ticket of a lottery walking on the street is almost comparable
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I don’t think you can claim the win if you can’t show you’ve bought the ticket
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 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.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 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