Manila: The incident of 433 people winning the jackpot in a single lottery in the Philippines has baffled mathematicians, while there have been calls for an investigation.
According to local media, this is the largest number of winners of the Grand Lotto. All were divisible by nine. In the Philippines, Senate opposition leader Coco Pimentel has called for an investigation into the questionable results.
According to the British Broadcasting Agency, an expert said that if 10 million people played this lottery, the probability of winning that many people is one of the numbers formed after putting 1224 zeros one after the other. A mathematics professor at the University of the Philippines. Guido David said that this number is so big that I don’t even know its name. In the universe we have seen, there are 80 zero molecules.
Grand Lotto participants have to pick 6 numbers from 1 to 55. In order to win the jackpot, a player must match all 6 numbers drawn by the lottery operator. Coco Pimentel called for an investigation into the unusual lottery results, saying that these lottery games are approved by the Republic of the Philippines, so we need to look into these games. To maintain and protect the reputation of
On Sunday, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) general manager of the lottery’s organizer, Melquids Robles, said there were no irregularities. He said that people in the Philippines have a habit of betting on consecutive numbers.
