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Friday, February 4, 2011

Statistician cracks lottery code


Sign Your Lotto Ticket, As of January 28, 2008...Image via Wikipedia
Toronto statistician Mohan Srivastava thought he was crazy at first when he recognized a pattern in OLG tic-tac-toe scratch and win tickets. But his observation proved correct. He could spot winning tickets by patterns on the tickets. Eventually he notified the OLG who pulled the game. Read about his tale here in Wired.



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