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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by free_rms on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:20PM (#25284095)
But OP didn't use either of those terms, they used "775% chance per year", which you can interpret colloquially as a speaker of English.

It's been clear throughout this thread what was meant.

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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by a1369209993 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:04PM (#25284844)
> "chance per year", which you can interpret

Probably something like reciprocal half-life; 775% / yr is about 1 / 1.5 month ie, happens about once every month and a half.

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