The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation - UK) does *NOT* run any lottery.
There are more than one (and a bit) different lotteries licensed in the UK and no I do not subscribe to any. The odds as you point out are horrendous. Originally it was bad enough with 6 numbers at odds of 14.5M : 1 On 04/12/15 14:18, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Fri, 4 Dec 2015 07:34:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: > >> too true. I may even start playing the state lottery, even though that's >> not really a good idea. I understand enough statistics to know that. > Don't do that. > I was listening to the BBC overnight a few weeks back, and they must have > been amending their lottery to have more numbers so the ultimate prize was > bigger. > They had a maths/stats prof on - he said for the current lottery, if you > stood in line for six and a half minute waiting for a ticket you had more > chance of dying in that 6.5 minutes than winning the money. > They added more numbers, so the time delta went down accordingly. > > Sobering .... ;0) > > Shane ... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > -- - IMPORTANT – This email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is intended solely for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Please also delete all copies of this email & any attachments from your system. If this is an encrypted email it is your responsibility to maintain the 1024 byte key system even for one-use keys. Once mail has been sent the sending key is not kept and therefore a replacement mail cannot be resent. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of non encrypted email communications. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages that you may suffer as a result of your receipt of this email including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components. Copyright in this email and any attachments belongs to Applewood Computers. Should you communicate with anyone at Applewood Computers by email, you consent to us monitoring and reading any such correspondence. Nothing in this email shall be taken or read as suggesting, proposing or relating to any agreement concerted practice or other practice that could infringe UK or EC competition legislation (unless it is against Security requirements). This Email and its attachments (if any) are scanned for virii using Clamd and ClamAV 0.98.8 or later (Linux x64). Dykegrove Limited T/A Applewood Computers is a company registered in England (no. 01681349) whose registered office is at Applewood House, Epping Road, Roydon, Essex, CM19 5DA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
