Re: Position means for Powerball

Frank J. Lhota wrote:

> Mensanator wrote:
> 
>> How many mathematicians do you know who've won the lottery?
> 
> 
> I don't know of a mathematician who /plays/ the lottery! There is great 
> wisdom in the observation that state lotteries are a tax on the 
> mathematically illiterate.

However that observation leaves open the possibility that someone who 
isn't mathematically illiterate might be able to find a way to profit 
from the lottery.

NigelH