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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 @09:56PM (#25284755)
Assuming for simplicity that it's 6d50; you'd get 6 numbers ascending or decending:

  You have: 50^6 / (50*2) / (1000/day)
  You want: yr
    * 427.79832
about once every 4 centuries.
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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by naniwaduni on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:09PM (#25284863)
It turns out 50^6 is much, much bigger than C(50,5)*20 (as the article implies), by about 400x.
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