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  2. Lottery ticket hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The term derived from considering the tunable subnetwork as the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket; the chance of any given ticket winning is tiny, but if you buy enough of them you are certain to win, and the number of possible subnetworks increases exponentially as the power set of the set of connections, making the number of possible ...

  3. Lottery (decision theory) - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the expected utility of Lottery A is 14.4 (= .90(16) + .10(12)) and the expected utility of Lottery B is 14 (= .50(16) + .50(12)) [clarification needed], so the person would prefer Lottery A. Expected utility theory implies that the same utilities could be used to predict the person's behavior in all possible lotteries. If, for ...

  4. 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

  5. Mega Millions calculator: Here's how much you'd win after taxes

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    Mega Millions Payout Calculator Omni Mega Millions drawings are every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. ET. Tickets are sold in 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

  6. The Best Lucky Lottery Numbers Based On Your Zodiac Sign - AOL

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    The lottery is a game of chance, but many play the lottery by their horoscope and believe their zodiac sign holds their lucky numbers. Astrology can be a fascinating way to learn more about yourself.

  7. Gambling and information theory - Wikipedia

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    The additive nature of surprisals, and one's ability to get a feel for their meaning with a handful of coins, can help one put improbable events (like winning the lottery, or having an accident) into context. For example if one out of 17 million tickets is a winner, then the surprisal of winning from a single random selection is about 24 bits.

  8. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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    Lottery wheeling (also known as a lottery system, lottery wheel, or lottery wheeling system) is a method of systematically selecting multiple lottery tickets to improve the odds of (or guarantee) a win. It is widely used by individual players and syndicates to secure wins provided they hit some of the drawn numbers.

  9. Maximal lotteries - Wikipedia

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    The input to this voting system consists of the agents' ordinal preferences over outcomes (not lotteries over alternatives), but a relation on the set of lotteries can be constructed in the following way: if and are lotteries over alternatives, if the expected value of the margin of victory of an outcome selected with distribution in a head-to-head vote against an outcome selected with ...