<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Here's what I wrote 20 years ago in THE LOTTO EFFECT: [...]</span></blockquote><br></div><div>Damien does that book explain how in the past 20 years those lotteries have somehow managed to produce huge and CONSISTENT profits that bookkeepers can predict to several decimal places despite all these people running around who have the comic book superpower of being able to foretell the future? </div><div><br></div><div>Lotteries are a tax on those who are bad at mathematics. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><br></body></html>