(October 20, 2018 at 2:54 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(October 20, 2018 at 1:02 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: "There's a sucker born every minute." — P.T. Barnum
I think Barnum under-estimated a bit....
How Mega Millions changed the odds to create a record-breaking $1.6 billion jackpot
Is a ticket 1$? It seems to me that anything over 302,000,000 dollars and you see the same return as odds.
They are $2, and probability doesn't work that way. You would think so, but people pick things like birthdays and so forth. Those picks will saturate the numbers from 1-12 especially, followed by the numbers up to 31, then other numbers up to whatever the top number is. A lot of winning numbers may not get picked because of that. This is just a rough description, off the top of my head. I'm certain that there may be other considerations.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
