13,983,816 And The Lottery – Numberphile

The chance of picking the six winning numbers from the 49 balls in the UK National Lottery is one in 13,983,816 – on the other hand, the odds of selecting no balls???

Number-loving physicist James Clewett attempts to “pick some winners”! 🙂

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15 Responses to "13,983,816 And The Lottery – Numberphile"

a google user says:
May 8, 2016 at 1:21 am
i spend $150AU per week on lotto tickets. Its only luck that will do it.
Not mathematics.
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WOWCruiser says:
May 12, 2016 at 5:47 am
FAKE
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Jimmy says:
May 12, 2016 at 10:23 am
Hacker
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Sin's Box says:
May 20, 2016 at 11:13 am
!rigged
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ttorrr says:
June 2, 2016 at 6:08 pm
15, 30, 37, 38, 45, 47
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Marc Lloyd says:
June 9, 2016 at 10:42 am
Hey, when you get to the multiplication of the fractions, you could “cross
cancel” in order to do it without the calculator. Anyway, please can you
guys release a new video with the current lottery rules? 1-59?
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ModernMinded says:
July 9, 2016 at 12:36 pm
Don’t the numbers need to be in a certain order as well?
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Teakatia Burentau says:
July 21, 2016 at 1:16 am
how come you choose those number
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Teakatia Burentau says:
July 21, 2016 at 1:20 am
I am the one i like to win the Lottery but i never never always i bought my
ticket never lucky am so sad.
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Daniel Ribas Tandeitnik says:
July 27, 2016 at 1:37 am
Here in Brazil we have a saying about people that play the lottery:
“Lottery is a tax for people who don’t know probability”. For me it’s quite
true. And here the lottery is worst, it’s played with 60 numbers…
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Kilak says:
August 30, 2016 at 9:59 am
I can’t agree more with his last statement. It is worth to spend few bucks
for all the excitement the whole process of buying the lottery ticket
provides.
I have won multiple times (small amounts of money, of course) and the
gratification is enormous. But people have to manage their expectations,
the chances of wining are close to zero…. Funny thing though, random
people win the lottery every week (sometimes twice a week). So…Why not
???
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Hi Everyone. says:
September 4, 2016 at 6:45 pm
It is incredible how some humans had the brain power to figure out how to
invent such mathematics. How did they knew that you have to calculate that
way to get it correct? That’s amazing.
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Jay Pham says:
September 5, 2016 at 4:12 pm
How did he get so lucky?
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ZER0 says:
September 12, 2016 at 10:37 am
If you buy two ticket in the lotto you double your chances of winning the
jackpot. So if the odds were a million to one and you bought ticket
1,2,3,4,5,6 and 1,2,3,4,5,7 you would have the odds of half a million to
one. I advice you to not buy 1,2,3,4,5,6 because you’d have over a thousand
people a week picking those numbers.
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Crat Strat says:
October 9, 2016 at 5:15 pm
OK, you were cheating in some mathematical way.
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