And now a PSA

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by retina

In no particular order: π, e, φ, G, i, 0

What's G? (I should hope it isn't Newton's constant, because that has units and therefore its numerical value is entirely arbitrary, so it makes for a terrible "number".)

[petrw1]

Originally Posted by schickel

California lets you download all the past winning numbers in text form from here.

Max 4 primes; 24 times; most recent:

703 Fri. Mar 16, 2012 28 29 43 51 53 7

88 times there were NO primes

[retina]

Originally Posted by Dubslow

What's G?

Graham's number.

[Dubslow]

Originally Posted by retina

Graham's number.

............................Ah.


Good luck putting that on a lottery ticket

[schickel]

Originally Posted by retina

In no particular order: π, e, φ, G, i, 0

Originally Posted by Dubslow

What's G? (I should hope it isn't Newton's constant, because that has units and therefore its numerical value is entirely arbitrary, so it makes for a terrible "number".)

Originally Posted by retina

Graham's number.

Originally Posted by Dubslow

............................Ah.


Good luck putting that on a lottery ticket

I think I figured out how to mark the ticket....now I just need some zlotys to play it.....

[schickel]

Originally Posted by schickel

I think I figured out how to mark the ticket....now I just need some zlotys to play it.....

Ooops....I actually need to know the value of mod to mark up this playslip....

[schickel]

Can you say "Holy batsh*t?"

This is after the jump overnight....and I committed yesterday to going in to work and selling tickets for a few hours later. I wonder how bad it will be.

[Stargate38]

Someone could make a quantum computer with that money! Lets hope it's fast enough to factor RSA-2048.

It takes simple Mod arithmetic to calculate G mod 46:

(18:58) gp > Mod(3^3,46)
%12 = Mod(27, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^9,46)
%13 = Mod(41, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^27,46)
%14 = Mod(13, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^81,46)
%15 = Mod(35, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^243,46)
%16 = Mod(3, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^729,46)
%17 = Mod(27, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^2187,46)
%18 = Mod(41, 46)
(13:26) gp > Mod(3^19683,46)
%19 = Mod(35, 46)

Notice the pattern: 27,41,13,35,3,27,41,...
G mod 46 = one of the 5 numbers ^ above.
G mod 5 = 2 so G mod 46 = 3. Did I get that right?

[schickel]

Well, the numbers are in for tonight; we're just waiting on the officials to figure out if any/how many winning tickets there are....

The numbers are 2, 4, 23, 38, 46, Mega 23......good luck!

[As an aside, I heard today that someone stopped at the store at Hallelujah Junction driving a Lamborghini and bought $5000 worth of tickets.....I have not seen a news report on that yet, but I guess i coudl believe it. I also heard that the wait was >3.5 hours in line down there.]

[retina]

Originally Posted by schickel

I also heard that the wait was >3.5 hours in line down there.]

I think these lotteries are a fabulous way for people to pay tax. Many people seem more than happy to pay and naturally the gov are more than happy to take. A win-win.

It is a a tax on the numerically challenged, just like the casinos.

[Uncwilly]

I always think of this:

Originally Posted by George Orwell

They were talking about the Lottery. Winston looked back when he had gone thirty metres. They were still arguing, with vivid, passionate faces. The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probable that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive. It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant. Where the Lottery was concerned, even people who could barely read and write seemed capable of intricate calculations and staggering feats of memory. There was a whole tribe of men who made a living simply by selling systems, forecasts, and lucky amulets. Winston had nothing to do with the running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons. In the absence of any real inter-communication between one part of Oceania and another, this was not difficult to arrange.

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/7.html