RolfAndreassen comments on A clever argument for buying lottery tickets - Less Wrong

1 Post author: RolfAndreassen 04 November 2011 11:19PM

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 05 November 2011 01:21:38AM 2 points [-]

somewhere you should be missing something

Fine, but where and what? I've already gone through the math a couple of times looking for errors; the purpose of posting here was to get fresh eyes on the problem.

Comment author: Hyena 07 November 2011 03:59:19AM 0 points [-]

I see that Wei_Dai has come up with the answer. I was unwilling to dedicate the time to it, as your example was needlessly overgrown. I should have simply said nothing save that. My apologies.