The "Ask Beaker" thread.

[Churchill]

come on churchy - has taking time out raised your stress levels?

Just trying to increase my post count before I get banned.

[AtW]

Beaker - what are the winning national lottery numbers for Wed (this week)?

[BrilloPad]

Just trying to increase my post count before I get banned.

why bother? just go ahead, post it and go. you can re-appear as randyw

[BrilloPad]

Beaker - what are the winning national lottery numbers for Wed (this week)?

-6, 3, 17, 24, 49, 50, 51, 75

[BrilloPad]

beaker - how long b4 churchy gets banned? answer in ms pls.

[TimberWolf]

What is the minimum number of lottery tickets needed to guarentee a £10 win?

[BrilloPad]

What is the minimum number of lottery tickets needed to guarentee a £10 win?

www.cs.sunysb.edu/~skiena/papers/lotto.doc

[TimberWolf]

Thanks. It's amusing that the lotto group went to the Computer science department rather than the Mathematics dept for this. Fur would presumably fly if the mathematicians were shown this 'solution' I can't complain, I often go for brute force over elegance too.

[BrilloPad]

I often go for brute force over elegance too.

Applied Maths rather than pure?

[beaker]

Beaker

Where did the love go on this board? ....so much fighting

Is it the newbies fault?

No, some of the grumpy old buggers are to blame