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  2. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement. It can also be used to analyze coincidences that happen in lottery drawings, such as repeated numbers appearing across different draws. [1

  3. Lottery (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "Lottery", is told in the first person, from the perspective of a school teacher, his friend Vikram, and Vikram's extended family. The teacher and Vikram discuss the lottery and speculate over their actions if either were to win a prize worth ten lakhs of Indian rupees. Vikram states that if he were to win the lottery, he would take a trip ...

  4. List of probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    A discrete power-law distribution, the most famous example of which is the description of the frequency of words in the English language. The Zipf–Mandelbrot law is a discrete power law distribution which is a generalization of the Zipf distribution. Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution Poisson distribution Skellam distribution

  5. List of five-number lottery games - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the game, a minimum of either two or three numbers(not counting a "bonus ball") must be matched for a winning ticket(A 2/5 match usually results in a free play for that game, or a "break-even" win; for the latter, the player wins back their stake on that particular five-number wager.).

  6. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    For example, a system with 12 numbers and a guarantee of "4 if 5" means the player will get a 4-win whenever five of his/her 12 numbers are among the drawn numbers. A lottery wheel acts as a single ticket in terms of a particular guarantee, but it allows playing with a set of numbers of size larger than the size of the set of numbers drawn in ...

  7. Skill testing question - Wikipedia

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    The most common form that these questions take is as an arithmetic exercise. A court decision ruled that a mathematical STQ must contain at least three operations to actually be a test of skill. [4] For example, a sample question is "(16 × 5) - (12 ÷ 4)" (Answer: 77).

  8. Lottery - Wikipedia

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    A lottery drawing being conducted at the television studio at Texas Lottery Commission headquarters Lottery tickets for sale, Ropar, India. 2019. A lottery (or lotto) is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Some governments outlaw lotteries, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national ...

  9. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.