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#lottery — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lottery, aggregated by home.social.

  1. London is officially the UK’s unluckiest place for key reason

    New research has ranked the luckiest and unluckiest postcodes in Britain for People’s Postcode Lottery wins – and…
    #London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #KingstonuponThames #lottery
    europesays.com/gbr/london/2407

  2. The penultimate session of the Mathsjam UK Gathering 2023 featured @mattp showing off some lesser known curves, followed by Pedro Freitas and Jorge Nuno Silva who showed us a 19th Century lottery system using decks of cards. Ben Handley @steelgarden discussed the concept of "squareness" and how we can judge this, and revealed which three countries are squarer than a circle (a circle is surprisingly square) -- visit mathstodon.xyz/@steelgarden/11 to read more. Finally, Clare Wallace helped us figure out exactly how wrong is the claim that "every packet of Skittles is unique", and gave us some skittles to eat as well! #mathsjam #maths #curves #lottery #cards #19thcentury #squareness #circles #skittles #uniqueness

  3. The penultimate session of the Mathsjam UK Gathering 2023 featured @mattp showing off some lesser known curves, followed by Pedro Freitas and Jorge Nuno Silva who showed us a 19th Century lottery system using decks of cards. Ben Handley @steelgarden discussed the concept of "squareness" and how we can judge this, and revealed which three countries are squarer than a circle (a circle is surprisingly square) -- visit mathstodon.xyz/@steelgarden/11 to read more. Finally, Clare Wallace helped us figure out exactly how wrong is the claim that "every packet of Skittles is unique", and gave us some skittles to eat as well! #mathsjam #maths #curves #lottery #cards #19thcentury #squareness #circles #skittles #uniqueness

  4. The penultimate session of the Mathsjam UK Gathering 2023 featured @mattp showing off some lesser known curves, followed by Pedro Freitas and Jorge Nuno Silva who showed us a 19th Century lottery system using decks of cards. Ben Handley @steelgarden discussed the concept of "squareness" and how we can judge this, and revealed which three countries are squarer than a circle (a circle is surprisingly square) -- visit mathstodon.xyz/@steelgarden/11 to read more. Finally, Clare Wallace helped us figure out exactly how wrong is the claim that "every packet of Skittles is unique", and gave us some skittles to eat as well! #mathsjam #maths #curves #lottery #cards #19thcentury #squareness #circles #skittles #uniqueness

  5. The penultimate session of the Mathsjam UK Gathering 2023 featured @mattp showing off some lesser known curves, followed by Pedro Freitas and Jorge Nuno Silva who showed us a 19th Century lottery system using decks of cards. Ben Handley @steelgarden discussed the concept of "squareness" and how we can judge this, and revealed which three countries are squarer than a circle (a circle is surprisingly square) -- visit mathstodon.xyz/@steelgarden/11 to read more. Finally, Clare Wallace helped us figure out exactly how wrong is the claim that "every packet of Skittles is unique", and gave us some skittles to eat as well! #mathsjam #maths #curves #lottery #cards #19thcentury #squareness #circles #skittles #uniqueness

  6. Noone talks about how most #lotteries can, will, or are made redundant by #ProofOfWork.

    Rather than throw money into some #lottery pool, or dollars into some tacky #pokieMachine (intl readers: #slotMachine), we'll instead join #miningPools. The dollar in the machine will power the #miners for several minutes while you play a *real* #videogame, displaying the #leadingZeros you're getting (#bitcoinMining works on these zeros).

    Less #gambling and #bureaucrats, more #goodStuff.

    #bitcoinFixesThis