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Millionair won the lotto

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  • #2
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Meh. If you buy a ticket, you're entitled to win it, regardless of status.


  • #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Fair fúcks to him.


  • #4
    mukki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,669 ✭✭✭mukki


    yeah i don't really care either , but i am sure some people will be upset


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Some people have all the luck:(


  • #6
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,129 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I think that, based on what I said in another thread, this would be one of those special occasions where I would use the "C" word if I ever met this person.


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  • #7
    doubledown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 804 ✭✭✭doubledown


    ejmaztec wrote:
    I think that, based on what I said in another thread, this would be one of those special occasions where I would use the "C" word if I ever met this person.

    Congratulations?


  • #8
    Binomate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Binomate


    I'd very much doubt that he was a millionaire in the first place because he was lucky.


  • #9
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Binomate wrote:
    I'd very much doubt that he was a millionaire in the first place because he was lucky.

    +1 I'm guessin' he probably worked hard to get there.


  • #10
    dlofnep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    congrats!


  • #11
    Slow Motion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    Just goes to show it's easier to make money when you have lots :D **** happens he's as entitled to it as anyone else ! I am left wondering why he felt the need to buy a ticket though ?


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  • #12
    eoin5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    I wonder if hell keep doing it now.


  • #13
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Some surgeon in Blackrock (presumably already fairly rich) is supposed to have won the Irish Lotto twice quite a while back.


  • #14
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    TwoShedsJackson wrote:
    Some surgeon in Blackrock (presumably already fairly rich) is supposed to have won the Irish Lotto twice quite a while back.

    Now that's lucky.


  • #15
    Wossack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,028 ✭✭✭Wossack


    Slow Motion wrote:
    Just goes to show it's easier to make money when you have lots :D **** happens he's as entitled to it as anyone else ! I am left wondering why he felt the need to buy a ticket though ?

    thats what I was wondering, maybe he bought a couple (of hundred) ?


  • #16
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,508 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Some surgeon in Blackrock (presumably already fairly rich) is supposed to have won the Irish Lotto twice quite a while back.
    No way... what are the odds of winning the lotto twice??


  • #17
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Same as winning it once.

    Probability is a whole different kettle of story.


  • #18
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Its true. IIRC he got one of the set of numbers from a shoe box. Heres an even better one though. Some lady won a few mill on the Irish lottery a few years back. She was back in Ireland visiting relatives for a few months. She went back home to the states and...........Won the powerball a year or so later.....ie Dolores Mcnamara Euromillions type of money!!


  • #19
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Terry wrote:
    Same as winning it once.

    Probability is a whole different kettle of story.
    The odds of winning each draw are the same alright, play the second time and youve the same chance as winning as the first. But the odds of one person actually winning twice are much much smaller than one person winning once.

    A maths guy could probably explain it better than me :D


  • #20
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    voodoo_child wrote:
    The odds of winning each draw are the same alright, play the second time and youve the same chance as winning as the first. But the odds of one person actually winning twice are much much smaller than one person winning once.

    A maths guy could probably explain it better than me :D

    Well I'm not maths guy. But if X represents the chance of winning (1 in whatever). Then you have X chance of winning it one week, and X chance of winning it the next week. However to win it twice your chances are X multiplied by X or X squared. So in conclusion

    You have X chance of winning it once or X squared chance of winning it twice, and this ends our maths lesson for today.

    I hope nobody corrects me as then i would look really dumb


  • #21
    patrickc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,931 ✭✭✭patrickc


    theres a guy well known to have won the lotto twice from strokestown co roscommon, you pass his house on the way into strokestown from Longford(the house is nicknamed locally the lotto house)


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  • #22
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,100 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    voodoo_child wrote:
    A maths guy

    I assume you mean a mathematician.


  • #23
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    mukki wrote:
    yeah i don't really care either , but i am sure some people will be upset

    And those people are more than likely losers


  • #24
    patrickolee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 890 ✭✭✭patrickolee


    alanmurphy83 wrote:
    Well I'm not maths guy. But if X represents the chance of winning (1 in whatever). Then you have X chance of winning it one week, and X chance of winning it the next week. However to win it twice your chances are X multiplied by X or X squared. So in conclusion

    You have X chance of winning it once or X squared chance of winning it twice, and this ends our maths lesson for today.

    I hope nobody corrects me as then i would look really dumb
    I think it's about right. Except we'd have to divide by the number of times you do it. ie if you do it twice a week for a year divide by 104. So that's roughly one in (8,145,060 * 8,145,060) / 104 = 637,903,869,265 per year if you do one line per draw. Not very likely.


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