Summary
"I'LL have a lucky dip for tonight," I said to the woman behind the counter at the sweet shop. And wondered, even as I passed over my pound coin, why on earth I continued to buy lottery tickets. A few years ago, when I worked at the Royal Institution in London, I struck up a conversation with that year's Christmas lecturer, a charming professor from Warwick University, who was an expert upon the science of chance. I don't know how we got on to the subject of the lottery, but it was a relatively new thing at the time, so perhaps we saw it as a suitable topic of conversation since he was a mathematician and I had this tremendous urge to be very, very rich.
Did he, I enquired, play the lottery? Nibbling delicately upon a prawn vol-au-vent, he shook his balding head decisively. Not a chance, he declared.See the full content of this document
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Is the Lottery a Chance Worth Taking? Punt.
At 14 million to one, the odds were far too great...
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