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A Million-dollar Proof
Aaron Abrams
We present a new twist on an old identity.
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Finding good bets in the lottery, and why you shouldn't take them
Aaron Abrams, Skip Garibaldi
We give a criterion under which the expected return on a ticket for certain large lotteries is positive. In this circumstance, we use elementary portfolio analysis to show that an…