Waiting time to exhaust lottery numbers |
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| Authors: | José Galvāo Leite Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira Flávio Wagner Rodrigues |
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| Affiliation: | lnstituto de Matematica e Estatfstica , Universidade de Sào Paulo , CEP, SP, 01498, BrazilC.Postal 20570 |
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| Abstract: | Questions related to lotteries are usually of interest to the public since people think there is a magic formula which will help them to win lottery draws. This note shows how to compute the expected waiting time to observe specific numbers in a sequence of lottery draws and show that surprising facts are expected to occur. |
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| Keywords: | Lottery lotto-weeks random selections waiting time. |
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