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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

There's a story in the book, a story about people who took advantage of the law of inevitability to win the lottery.

That's mathematician David Hand, talking about his 2014 book, The Improbability Principle,

Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events

happen every day. The law of inevitability comes into play in lottery drawings. Some set of numbers

will be drawn, so a potential winning combination is inevitable. The key word being potential,

as nobody has yet won the multi-state powerball lottery, which means that the jackpot for the next drawing, the night of January 13th,

is up to some $1.3 billion.

You could buy a ticket in hope, or, as you may have mused,

you could buy every possible set of numbers to inevitably win.

1992 Virginia State Lottery, the Virginia State Lottery.

The Virginia State Lottery is a 64-Lottery.

You have to choose six numbers out of 44, which means it's a one in seven million chance that a ticket, particular ticket would be the Jackpot winning ticket.

Seven million.

So if you bought all the tickets, it would only cost you $7 million.

So they waited until the rollover jackpot had built up to, it hadn't been won, so it built

up over several weeks to $27 million.

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