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It looks like he bought 100 consecutive tickets. If the winning tickets are truly random, it wouldn't matter, but I wouldn't be surprised if the distribution is
by Thrymr 13y ago
It looks like he bought 100 consecutive tickets. If the winning tickets are truly random, it wouldn't matter, but I wouldn't be surprised if the distribution is controlled in some way that ensures winning tickets will be more evenly distributed than random. Anyone know whether this is the case?
If it is, the variance at least (if not the expected return) could be different if the tickets were purchased in 100 different places.
- the_cat_kittles 13y agousually you can see how many of the bigger prizes have been collected during a run. If you didn't manually ensure they were not all clumped together, you might run into cases where tickets could be deduced to have substantially different odds (in either direction)... I think this has actually happened. You wouldn't want all the big prizes to get claimed right at the beginning, I imagine people would largely stop buying your tickets.