RE: GLUG: Lotto

[Eugene Roux <eugene.roux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

My apologies to all of you for perpetuating this:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Thinus Pollard wrote:
> my R0.02 (for what it's worth these days....)
> 
> the chances of picking the correct 6 numbers in sequence....
> 
> 1/49 * 1/48 * 1/47 * 1/46 * 1/45 * 1/44
> 
> or 43!/49!
> 
> which comes to...
> 
>  1 in 10 068 347 520
> 
> pretty slim....

Shouldn't this be:

6/49 * 5/48 * 4/47 * 3/46 * 2/45 * 1/44

Since we don't really care about the order of the numbers...

Which would break down to:

6/49 * 5/48 * 4/47 to hit any three numbers...

Regards,
Eugene

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