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Originally Posted by AskinHaskin
B - That same player could have had hundreds of different Serial numbers and still won the jackpot.
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B) You cited "2160" combinations... Had the player somehow pinpointed a 40-cent wager/ticket with a single serial number including
W/W/W/S,W/W/W
it would not have mattered at all whether he had 1, or 2058 other serial numbers
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I believe we are saying the same thing, but for clarity, the following.
If the player purchased one single 20-cent ticket that was, using your notation, W/W/W/
W/W/W, and then went back to the window and purchased another single 20-cent ticket that was W/W/W/
S/W/W, these two tickets would have been assigned unique serial numbers (as separate bets) and the player would NOT have won the Jackpot.
Using an "A/B/C construction" technique can easily lead to this situation. In our example, the first ticket could have been all A selections while the second ticket was an A/A/A/B/A/A format.
The only way to have avoided this situation was to caveman all of the cross-products (using a set-theory term there) onto a single ticket with a single serial number.
