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Originally Posted by blankall
Amazing that the vice president of the Lottery Commission has such poor understanding of how probability works. The odds of two tickets winning are exactly the same as the odds of one ticket winning. He is purposely picking the same number...he's only betting on one number.
Now, if he'd one two seperate numbers, then the gazillion to one comments might be warranted.
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I think that the odds of someone buying two identical tickets are like a sextillion to one though. I have never heard of someone intentionally picking two of the identical numbers... well ever.