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"tert in seattle" > wrote in message
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> Cheri wrote:
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>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 10:28:26 PM UTC-5, Cheryl wrote:
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>>>> I think I'll buy a few more chances this week since no one won.
>>>
>>> Mathematically speaking, the difference between buying 1 ticket
>>> and 5 tickets is not worth the extra $8.
>>>
>>> (Of course, mathematically speaking, the ROI on even one ticket is
>>> so close to zero that no statistician would consider it worth buying
>>> even one.)
>>>
>>> But if it makes you happy, go ahead and buy more. My husband does.
>>>
>>> We don't buy tickets very often; just often enough to give our
>>> "what I'd do with the money" fantasies a little more immediacy.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton

>>
>> Nobody that buys a ticket cares about all the math and statistics, if you
>> play you have a chance at a dream, if you don't...
>>
>> Cheri

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> if you don't, you can get a cookie!
>
> I will take the real cookie vs. a dream


Not me, fact is, some people actually win that dream and could buy the
whole damned bakery.

Cheri