Jonii comments on Winning the Unwinnable - Less Wrong

4 Post author: JRMayne 21 January 2010 03:01AM

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Comment author: Jonii 21 January 2010 02:47:01PM 4 points [-]

You could do even better than just buying all tickets. Many people use dates and such predictable numbers in lottery, so, if you exclude those that are likely to tie, and fill many of the weird combinations, your expected value goes up.

Comment author: RobinZ 21 January 2010 04:50:42PM 1 point [-]

Expected risk goes up too - best check the numbers on that.