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Save £104 a year on the National Lottery

I've always believed it's a tax on people who don't understand maths

It's like saying,

Pick a number between 1 and 14,000,000 (14 million), and if you guess correctly you'll win the jackpot
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  • chatta
    chatta Posts: 3,392 Forumite
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    Wonder what you know about taxes.
  • yeh but their is always the chance u will win! but hey i dont play anyway bonds r the way 4ward!
    I Don't like you!
  • Eoin_McLove
    Eoin_McLove Posts: 165 Forumite
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    If you're spending £104 per year on the lottery, presumably you're playing twice each week, so actually it's like picking two numbers between 1 and 14,000,000; needless to say, much better odds, if you 'understand maths.' :cool:
    'It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege.' - Primo Levi
  • I've always believed it's a tax on people who don't understand maths

    It's like saying,

    Pick a number between 1 and 14,000,000 (14 million), and if you guess correctly you'll win the jackpot
    No mantra for you. Can't you spend you time doing something more constructive, like watch paint dry because quite frankly, your posts are boring me now.
    Wildly my mind beats against you, yet the soul obeys. :heartpuls

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  • u2o
    u2o Posts: 349 Forumite
    and whilst we're there...

    you actually only need to win £10 eleven times in the year whilst playing twice a week to make a profit. now do the maths (i cant be bothered work it out hehe)
  • Lord_Chris
    Lord_Chris Posts: 358 Forumite
    and the point in this thread was?
  • Descartes
    Descartes Posts: 144 Forumite
    I've always believed it's a tax on people who don't understand maths

    It's like saying,

    Pick a number between 1 and 14,000,000 (14 million), and if you guess correctly you'll win the jackpot

    It isn't quite 14,000,000...

    (49!)/(6!)(43!) = 13,983,816

    I understand maths.
  • Descartes wrote:
    It isn't quite 14,000,000...

    (49!)/(6!)(43!) = 13,983,816

    I understand maths.

    hehe, yeah I rounded up


    oooh perms and coms I remember those.. Stats1
  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,935 Forumite
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    Apparantly odds have shown you have have more chance of flying to the moon than you have of winning the lottery. What a waste of £104.
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  • someone
    someone Posts: 848 Forumite
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    yer, but it would be nice to win. Thats all the lottery is there for. Now if someone that has been playing since the day it started with the same numbers each week stoped playing you just know that them number will come up
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