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Re:Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball? by QuotedForTruth on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:43PM (#10868062)
Only if you are only picking two sets of numbers. If you are doing 10k sets, the last set has a 9999/292M chance of being the same numbers as one of the other sets.
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Re:Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball? by bradleyjg on Friday January 08, 2016 @03:46PM (#10868092)
Right, that's the birthday problem.
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