Recently, a winner with a perfect score in mathematics in the college entrance examination claimed that he won the Grand Lotto grand prize of 21.79 million through "calculation". What happened?
On the evening of April 29, the lottery draw for the 20030th issue of the Grand Lotto was held. A total of 6 first prizes were won across the country. Among them, a lottery player from Hangzhou, Zhejiang won 1 additional first prize, with a total prize of 21.79 million.
Early in the morning on April 30, a couple born in the 1980s came to the Zhejiang Sports Lottery Center to claim the grand prize.
As you can see from the winning lottery ticket (picture below), it is an "8+3" multiple additional betting ticket, which cost a total of 504 yuan.
According to media reports, the winner, Mr. Hu, was a top student in mathematics when he was a student. He scored full marks in mathematics in the college entrance examination and had strong logical thinking. With his high score in science, he was admitted to his ideal university.
Regarding the 21.79 million won this time, Mr. Hu said that "does not choose numbers randomly. Every day, I take a notebook and deduce based on some mathematical calculation methods to arrive at a number that has a high probability of appearing. Of course, luck is still needed."
won 21.79 million in the Lotto through "mathematical calculations", do you believe it?
Regardless of whether Mr. Hu can calculate the first prize of the Lotto, there is indeed a very shocking similar case abroad - Romanian economist Stefan Mandel won 14 times through mathematical calculations The grand prize has earned a total of approximately 30 million US dollars (approximately RMB 212 million).
How did he win the prize through "calculation"? At the beginning of
, he proposed a theory called " combination condenses ". The specific operation is to buy all the combinations of 6 and 5 numbers, so that you can 100% win the second prize. In this way, he and his friends won tens of thousands of dollars in prizes. After
tasted the sweetness, Mandel came to Australia in the 1980s and established a special lottery company. He won several jackpots, forcing the lottery agency to modify the lottery gameplay. How did he win the lottery?
1. Calculate the total number of possible combinations. (If you choose 6 numbers between 1 and 40, there are approximately 3,838,380 combinations);
2. Wait for the opportunity when the lottery jackpot prize is 3 times or more than the number of possible combinations;
3. Find investors and raise enough funds to purchase each combination;
4, print out millions of tickets and hand them over to authorized lottery retailers/dealers;
5, win the prize and distribute the money to investors.
Mandel once won the first prize of Virginia 27 million, with as many as 2,524 investors participating. Among them, he used 30 computers and 12 laser printers, 20 or 30 tons of paper, and printed out 7 million number combinations, which took up to three months.
His winning strategy is not to calculate the winning number for a certain bet or several bets, but to purchase all combinations when the bonus is large enough.
This method is difficult to work today.
On the one hand, in the 1990s when Mandel lived, the number of general lottery combinations was relatively small, only a few million at most, but now there are tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of combinations in lottery. On the other hand, it is now impossible for one person or a team to play tickets by themselves or purchase all lottery combinations in time. This is why Mandel later stopped buying lottery tickets.
Back to the beginning of the article, Mr. Hu won 21.79 million in the Lotto through "mathematical calculations". This possibility is slim and 99.99% is due to luck. what you think?
