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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
So what happened on Numb3rs?
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These guys where stealing lottery tickets. They needed a large sample so they could reverse engineer the algorithm used to tie the serial number to the prize amount. This way they could determine the serial number for the $5million winner. There was an insider working with them why got access to the list of s/n's that went to the lottery agents so they could then buy the jackpot ticket.
Of course, through the whole show Prof Charlie Epps was saying how it was a tax on the mathematically inept among us... of course his Dad took the opposite stance... sort of like I do... the money in most state lotteries is used for education.
As a matter of fact, lottery money is paying the tuition of both of my two sons currently in college.
There was a funny gag at the end where Charlie's Dad gives him a lotto ticket and Charlie win's $10k... only to find out that his dad punked him and it was a gag lotto ticket he bought online.
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