On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 03:22, Jean Sagi wrote: > > Lotto? What do you mean?... Baloto perhaps... > > > > Chucho! > > Here in America, many states have what they call a Lotto. What happens > is you go to a local convenience store and purchase a Lotto ticket for a > US $1 a ticket. They usually have 6 numbers on them from 1 to 40 or > so. Then once a week they draw numbers out of a contraption that has a > bunch of numbered ping pong balls in it and you hope that the six you > picked (or had randomly generated) on your ticket are the same six that > pop up out of the ball machine. Is so you win the jackpot of generally > some tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. > > Most people don't win. Thus you have to pretty lucky if you do.
As someone once said, the Lottery is a tax on the mathematically ignorant. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
