Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: OT: Farewell Windows Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 02:20:40 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <4b288676-8710-4eab-9962-b72fd8efa804@googlegroups.com> <8d106b9a-cb7a-4f89-a913-1dde4f129217@googlegroups.com> <2b6c8713-36cd-438b-a9d3-c18dde789f08@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:41272 On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:45:54 -0400, wrote: > The lottery motto says: "You can't win if you don't play." > This doesn't mean that it is a good idea to buy lottery tickets. What?!? It's a good idea to buy lottery tickets and I can prove it. Most people only look at the odds of having the winning numbers. These odds are very poor. They don't see the big picture. The big picture is you have only one working career to become wealthy. The odds of that are very poor too. However, you have two lotteries, and two drawings per lottery per week in the U.S.A. That's a bit under 12,000 chances over your working lifetime. A college degree will cost you at least $120,000 USD today. Whereas, the cost of all those lottery tickets is less than $24,000 USD. What's the better buy? a) $120,000 for one chance or b) $24,000 for 12,000. Clearly, it's a very good idea to buy lottery tickets. The odds are against you in both cases, but one situation is much cheaper per chance. If every American bought $10 of lottery tickets on the same day for the same lottery, we could create the world's first lottery billionaire. Rod Pemberton -- Scientists now say we'll experience a mini-ice in 2030. So, I guess we need more global warming today ...