"The chance of winning from a game of Oz Lotto is about one in 45 million," states Dr Warton.
"To get a sense of how small that it, consider what would happen if I dumped two reams (1000 pages) of A4 paper onto every seat at the Sydney Cricket Ground and asked you to take a guess at which is the one 'winning' page out of the four truckloads of paper that I have scattered all around the SCG.
"What you have there is about a one in 45 million chance of winning -- and an awful mess.
"If I forgot where the winning page was and had to check each page individually to find it, it would probably take me over three years (closer to two years if I worked weekends)."
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Dr. David Warton of UNSW's Department of Mathematics and Statistics has already done the calculations as Australians prepare for the biggest lottery of all time, and the findings are not as positive as most Australians would like.
As Australians get ready for the biggest lottery in history, Dr. David Warton of UNSW's Department of Mathematics and Statistics has already done the calculations. The results are not as encouraging as most Australians would like.
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