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Powerball Lottery
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.. tags:: short, humour, simulation



The Powerball Lottery is an exciting way to lose small amounts of money. If you
purchase a $2 ticket, you can pick six numbers: five drawn from 1 to 69, and a
sixth “Powerball” number drawn from 1 to 26. The order of the numbers doesn’t
matter. If the lottery selects your six numbers, you win $1.586 billion
dollars! Except you won’t win, because your odds are 1 in 292,201,338. But if
you spent $200 on 100 tickets, your odds would be . . . 1 in 2,922,013. You
won’t win that either, but at least you’ll lose 100 times as much money. The
more you like losing money, the more fun the lottery is!

To help you visualize how often you won’t win the lottery, this program
simulates up to one million Powerball drawings and then compares them with the
numbers you picked. Now you can have all the excitement of losing the lottery
without spending money.

Fun fact: every set of six numbers is just as likely to win as any other. So
the next time you want to buy a lottery ticket, pick the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and 6. Those numbers are just as likely to come up as a more complex set.


.. collapse:: powerball_lottery.py

   .. literalinclude:: powerball_lottery.py
      :language: python
      :linenos:


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