Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
by 6gvONxR4sf7o on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:49PM
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Wikipedia says that powerball is out of 69 balls, not out of 50, and in the U.S. there are only about 100 draws per week. I cant imagine the worldwide numbers are more than an order of magnitude higher (I guessed it at 200/week in a sibling comment). That’s 7.5x more potential draws, and 5x-35x fewer draws per week, which would change the numbers quite a bit, making the weekly chance way way lower than your estimate.
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