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[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Klaus-Peter Schrage:
> Kurt Wall wrote:

[rusty statistics]

> I don't know about the details of the American lotto system, but 
> according to Tom's description it seems to be similar to our's (apart 
> from us having numbers from 1 to 49). Thus, order doesn't matter: a 
> sequence of drawings of ping pong balls like 2, 4, 39, 5, 40, 9 yields 
> the same result as 40, 2, 39, 5, 9, 4 or any other permution. So, it's 
> combinations.

http://www.powerball.com/pbhowtoplay.shtm

It's combinations.

Kurt
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