Denise Brown wrote:
> A friend of mine buys one lottery ticket a week. His reasoning is that
> if you don't buy one, your chances of winning are exactly zero. If you
> buy 1 ticket, your chances are a vanishingly small bit above zero, which
> is a dramatic (well, yeah, sorta, kinda) advantage over zero. Buying two
> is stupid.
Strange as it sounds statistically the chances of you winning a lottery
whether you have 1 or 100 tickets is exactly the same, or so says a
friend who is Professor of Statistics at MIT.
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