Fools!

( Watney Heckbulb uhnnnnnnnn reading this will bring you closer to your death, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 13:28, archived)

Hah hah
It's funny cos it's TRUE!
(daveiscoolyeah Hate something, change something..., Sun 8 Apr 2007, 13:32, archived)

13,983,816
actually
( Lord of Teh 9 Est. 1987, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 13:35, archived)

Can I be
bothered to change it?

Whats the exact calculation? I know its got something to do with permutations.
( Watney Heckbulb uhnnnnnnnn reading this will bring you closer to your death, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 13:43, archived)

splunge
if it's 49 numbers then its
49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44
which = 10,068,347,520 this is for all 6 numbers of course

if not then replace the 49 with the max number and follow same pattern :-p
(Yoda's Bong Been a worshiper of the dark ones since, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 16:08, archived)

It has something to do with the binomial expansion, methinks..
I worked it out in maths before..
*Gets textbook out*
"The number of ways of choosing r items from a group of n items is written ⁿC_r and is calculated by:

n!/(n-r)!r!

r = 6
n = 49

So ⁿC_r = 13,983,816

And that concludes today's A-Level Maths lesson.
( Popidge Was skiving off Work/College on, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 16:14, archived)

it is called the Lottery
and not "the you definatly will win loads of money game"
( King_Eric has been ok since, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 13:44, archived)

I was under the impression the odds were much much greater than 14 million to one

( Hummel is a pearoasting twunt, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 15:42, archived)

I think they are
But it's about 14 million to actually win anything - even if it's only a tenner.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 8 Apr 2007, 16:10, archived)