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Very small/classical question.

If you are European fellows you for sure know that the European lottery, named EuroMillions is "offering" today something around €125,000,000.

Damn, that's a pretty nice amount, and for once I realized that I should perhaps give it a try, a simple ticket is only about 2€. But then even for 2€, does it really worth it, or do I have more chance to get struck by lightning ?!

As explained on Wikipedia link, a single grid is composed of 50 "classical" numbers & 11 stars (numbered from 1 to 11). You have to select 5 numbers & 2 stars per grid.

I know this is an old fashion question, but from what I have read here, I would be very interested to hear more about what you, gentlemen, are thinking of this.

Probabilities to become a strike lightning survivor, and/or multimillionaire strike lightning survivor would be some nice to have :)

*Update, after the lottery *: I forgot one value ... the fact that on the lottery day, you can go back home too late to be able to buy a ticket, no matter what's the weather looks like.

And to be honest, the sky was very nice yesterday with no clouds, and no lightning at all, but I was not able to buy a ticket and to play the lottery, so it makes easier the computation of winning chances ;)

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    We're not all gentlemen. Some of us are actually pretty un-gentle...2011-09-06
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    Do you want to calculate the probability of winning, or do you want something else?2011-09-06
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    @Srivatsan, thanks ... but if you check from the Wiki link I already provided, the probability of winning are already there, and from my small knowledge it looks like (50! - 45!)/(5!) * (11! - 9!)/(2!)2011-09-07
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    So what do you want? Statistics on lightning strikes? If so, this is the wrong place to ask.2011-09-07

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