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Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) by therein on Friday October 18, 2024 @08:47PM (#41884743)
I'd believe it. Many years ago when I was around 10 years old and not understanding the concept of probability properly, I decided I had come up with a way to enumerate the lottery numbers and come up with a reasonably sized set of numbers to place bets for. I proceeded to write 9 pages of numbers for my father to place bets for. It is a 6/49 lottery so 6 balls are drawn from a set of 49 and you need to get all of them right to get the jackpot.

It would have cost a little under 95$ to have played all my numbers (for a jackpot around $1.5M) I gave him however it would have taken a lot of effort to manually enter them. My father just does one page because it is silly. The numbers are silly, everything about this is silly. I completely understand in hindsight. But it turned out page 7 had the winning combination.

Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) by Jerrrry on Friday October 18, 2024 @09:03PM (#41884817)
I've seen that movie too
Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) by Nition on Saturday October 19, 2024 @06:03AM (#41886861)
I'm not sure why your comment is currently downvoted, you're not claiming it was anything but random luck and it's a funny story. Thanks for sharing.
Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) by ashleyn on Saturday October 19, 2024 @10:48AM (#41888072)
If the balls were improperly weighted at the lottery commission, then maybe you'd have unwittingly discovered the bias in the game. That's certainly possible.