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EzGraphs on Oct 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets

A mathematically friend who gambles a bit expressed it this way:

"Chances of winning - 1 in <some ridiculously high number> ...I'll play anyway - somebody's got to win."

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