Mathematician explains the 'simple' loophole used to win the lottery | 60 Minutes Australia

tell me about jerry and marge, are they an anomaly? I mean, we don't see this story very often, right? because I don't think everyone would be sitting on top of all the lotteries and studying all the numbers right now if you had picked up that pamphlet. Would you have been inclined to turn it over and see how it works? I am a

mathematician

personally. I don't particularly like numbers. I wouldn't have noticed those numbers changing. You also know that these lotteries or lotteries have educated

mathematician

s. They are constantly looking at all these numbers, so if I wanted to win a lot of money I'm not going to look at where the best mathematicians are employed, so it was an anomaly that this rolldown created such a favorable condition for winning in the beginning. was that if it was not a jackpot, it was accumulated and since the money that would have been withdrawn in a jackpot was reduced to those who had the numbers three four five is like that, yes, and then distribute the dividends, is it that

simple

as? which is as

simple

as those who only picked three of the six numbers could win a substantial amount of money because it was narrowing down to the least favorable ones, so instead of always playing, I need to have the six numbers you have now.

They're actually going to win a substantial amount of money if you only pick three of the six numbers and they were buying hundreds of thousands of tickets, so they're investing quite a bit of money, there's still the risk, there's still the boost that they're still getting. a play kick in this game, however, it seems so, and jerry calculated how often those rolls would occur. What Jerry did was he could see how much money was going to be thrown away and I think, to his surprise, not everyone was doing it. This is again because the money that is accumulated is distributed to all the winners, so if too many people win, you won't end up with much.

You said not many people noticed, why not, because most of us don't walk. Looking at those numbers, we're not even open to seeing those kinds of patterns in the numbers, all you needed to do is look at those numbers with basic math and wait a second, something is going on here, it seemed like there was only a small number of people took the winnings and there was an investigation to see if they were manipulating the system or ripping off the lotteries. God forbid. The investigator discovered that what he was doing was 100 percent legal and described him as a math nerd. genius, wouldn't you agree with that genius math nerd um, he wasn't a nerd, I don't think he's a math genius, bless his cotton socks, he's very dear to my heart because he's someone who actually has the open eyes looking, you know, the numbers appeared.

He got up and didn't just walk by and obviously he wasn't doing things like choosing his grandmother's birthday. He knew very well that any number works and in this case the odds were in his favor so it's the basic mathematics that is beautiful and sweet. is he saw that hello i'm tom steinfert thank you for watching 60

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