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Based on Derren Brown’s magical formula to win on the lottery, I hacked together a little bit of code to try and win the upcoming EuroMillion draw (yes, I know I’m sad).

The code generates random tickets with 5 unique numbers between 1 and 50 and 2 potentially non-unique numbers between 1 and 9. For example:

Ticket{numbers=[1, 14, 17, 21, 28], stars=[5, 2]}
Ticket{numbers=[2, 6, 8, 25, 43], stars=[1, 2]}
Ticket{numbers=[12, 23, 30, 36, 41], stars=[5, 4]}
Ticket{numbers=[8, 19, 28, 37, 41], stars=[5, 9]}
Ticket{numbers=[6, 20, 22, 28, 30], stars=[5, 6]}
Ticket{numbers=[2, 3, 33, 36, 40], stars=[9, 2]}
Ticket{numbers=[20, 26, 30, 39, 50], stars=[6, 5]}
Ticket{numbers=[11, 13, 22, 30, 38], stars=[3, 6]}
Ticket{numbers=[10, 14, 17, 45, 47], stars=[8, 7]}

You’ll notice that the numbers are sorted in increasing order, except for the stars. If you then take the average of the numbers at each position, you’ll get the “winning” number, or so the magic goes.

The interesting bit though, which I’m curious about, is that if you generate more than 100 or so tickets in one go, the average is always the same. Why is this, and does it make sense?

• You’re like an exothermic reaction, you spread your hotness everywhere!
• I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.
• You’re like a dictionary, you add meaning to my life!
• If I was an enzyme, I’d be helicase so I could unzip your genes.
• I’m attracted to you so strongly, scientists will have to develop a fifth fundamental force.
• Be my queen and mate me with your knight moves.
• You make my floppy disk turn into a hard drive
• Do you think we can make it a step more serious and disable network sharing?
• I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?
• I’ll treat you like my homework — I’ll slam you on the table and do you all night long
• I wish I were your second derivative so I could fill your concavities.
• Did you just combust?? Because you’re HOT!
• What do you say we go back to my room and do some math: Add a bed, subtract our clothes, divide your legs, and multiply
• Every time I see you, my cardiovascular system gets all worked up
• I wish I were adenine because then I could get paired with U.
• What’s your sine? It must be pi/2 because you’re the 1
• If my right leg was Christmas and my left was Easter, would you like to spend some time between the holidays?
• Want to meet up so I can excite your natural frequency?
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• If I move my lips half the distance to yours… and then half again… and again… etc…. would they ever meet? no? Well in this specific case I am going to disprove your assumption.
• If I was an endoplasmic reticulum, how would you want me: smooth or rough?
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• Let me be your integral so I can be the area under your curves
• Let’s discover our coefficient of friction
• You’re so gneiss I’ll never take you for granite.
• I less than three you….. (i < 3 you)