The lottery is for the mathematically impaired, but when jackpots get high enough, playing the lottery is a mathematically reasonable risk/benefit proposition.
The trick is to only play when the jackpots get high.
7 posted on 08/07/2011 7:36:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(Palin is coming, and the Tea Party is coming with her.)
Large jackpots don’t improve your chance of winning, and because they draw more contestants they increase your chances of having to split the pot if you do buck the astronomical odds and win.
63 posted on 08/09/2011 9:08:31 AM PDT by discostu
(keep on keeping on)