xtc wrote:Some old fascist on a local social media site stated that, if "proper maths" was taught in schools, no one would ever play the lottery. Other than the opportunity to climb up on her soap box, I somehow think she missed the point.
If proper maths
were taught in schools, no one would ever
win the lottery either. It doesn't matter that my chances of
dying today are 10,000 times better than my
ever winning the jackpot in the Powerball lottery; it's human nature to simply take a shot.
Latest news is that the jackpot is $1.
5 billion now!
Just so that anyone here who believes in prayer has a vested interest in the outcome, if I win the jackpot with the one ticket I bought I'll share $10,000 (or the equivalence in euros) with
each person on this board with whom I've had a steady and
uniformly cordial correspondence with.

Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...