It's Math: Why You Should Never Play The Lottery. ByVanessa McGrady,. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jan 08, 2016, 06:45am EST Dec 10, 2021, 09:42am EST.

On Friday, May 29, 1992, operatives at the National Lottery noticed strange spending patterns across the country. Individuals were going into obscure newsagents and post offices and buying up as much ...

A group of 30 current and former employees of a Kentucky middle school who won a $1 million Powerball jackpot hid the winning ticket in a math textbook.. The educators refer to themselves as the ...

A SAVVY brain and a perfect number formula was all it took for a maths whizz to win the lottery 14 TIMES – until his luck ran out. Desperate for cash, Romanian economist Stefan Mandel, now 84… ...

Eventually, Mandel targeted a lottery in Virginia, where the rules around picking six numbers between one and 44 meant they only had 7,059,052 – apparently, this was a good thing.

Davidson College math professor Tim Chartier, left, and Fairfield University statistics professor Nicholas Kapoor, right, discussed what math can tell us about the Texas Lottery.

A single lottery player bought virtually every possible number combination to win a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot in ... Math experts explain calculations involved in a surefire Texas lottery win.

A group of 30 current and former employees of a Kentucky middle school who won a $1 million Powerball jackpot hid the winning ticket in a math textbook. The educators refer to themselves as the ...

A SAVVY brain and a perfect number formula was all it took for a maths whizz to win the lottery 14 TIMES – until his luck ran out. Desperate for cash, Romanian economist Stefan Mandel, now 84… ...