1994-06-28 - Re: Lotto odds

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From: roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-06-28 11:57:47 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 04:57:47 PDT

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From: roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 94 04:57:47 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Lotto odds
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In list.cypherpunks, tcmay@netcom.com writes:

> Maybe, but the state has a wonderful scam of paying off a "5 million
> dollar jackpot" over 20 years; the true value (what the same deal
> would cost you to buy as an annuity) is less than $5 M, possibly much
> less. If private outfits did this, they'd be jailed.

Jailed?  Publisher's Clearing House, American Family Puublishers and
Reader's Digest have done this for years.
- -- 
Roy M. Silvernail --  roy@sendai.cybrspc.mn.org
                   "I'm a family man, model citizen."
                                      -- Warren Zevon

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