Wednesday, August 4

Bizarre Chinese Lottery Coincidence

Here's a bizarre lottery coincidence from China. It was reported in the Chinese newspaper, translated as, Modern Evening Times (MET).

Chinese Lottery tickets coincidence
The story is about two winners of the Chinese lottery in April 2009. They each won 5 million yuan, one lived in Henan and the other Heilongjiang. These two towns are thousands of kilometers from each other.

Okay, not too strange so far but they both picked out the same number of 3511587 - which, I guess, they would have had to do if there were two winners.

Identical Chinese Lottery ticketsBut now here is the bizarre coincidence bit: The two gentlemen concerned picked these identical numbers at exactly the same time - right down to the second! They were both purchased on 2009/04/26 at precisely 10:17:12 - and their tickets prove this.

Seemingly, for this lottery, there were over 10 million numbers picked by players and at peak times over 100 transactions take place every second.

The reporter in the MET, Zhang Feifei, also added as a bonus coincidence, "Interestingly, the two big winners also had the same height, weight, and blood type."

An assistant professor of mathematics at Heilongjiang University has had his calculator on overdrive to work out the odds of this happening - the lottery bit that is, not their height and such.

This is what the prof, He Chunyang, worked out, "Suppose you pick a two-digit number using the digits 1 to 9. That makes 81 combinations. If you have two seven-digit numbers with an identical sequence, the probability is 1/282429536481 (one in 81x81x81x81x81x81), or roughly one in 282 billion. And when you factor in the two players thousands of kilometers apart who bought tickets at precisely the same second, the probability approaches zero."

Not sure I understood all that but he seems to be saying that it's virtually impossible for two players to pick the same numbers at exactly the same time - but they did, and this is what happens in the world of coincidences and synchronicity: the virtually impossible actually happens.

Further Reading:
The Bulgarian Lottery Coincidence
Dead Wife Helps Husband Win £26 Million On Lottery

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5 comments:

  1. OK - this one is impressive! What are the odds?

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  2. thats sum coincidence numbers at exactly the same time.

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  3. Anonymous12:14

    the chinese professor has it right since the two chinese lottery players chose the same series of numbers, i.e. the same permutation and not the same group of numbers i.e. the same combination

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