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From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Vita)
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Subject: Re: How to get rich with a time machine - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 21-May-84 19:27:47 EDT
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>Won't work unless you can jump to the exact spot where the winning
>ticket is.  That requires clairvoyance.  Time machines don't give away
>all the answers ...
 
  Not all state lotteries work like that, however.  In Massachusetts
(and therefore at MIT!) you simply pick a series of numbers.
The drawing is done by generating a sequence of numbers.  The
jackpot is divided between all who have matching numbers.
Sometimes it's no one, sometimes it's four or five people.
(If you have two identical tickets, you get two shares!  This
happened to some lucky fool a few weeks ago who accidently
bought two of the same ticket.)
  So, the method of buying that paper and going back in 
time would work, if you were playing Megabucks (the
aforementioned lottery game.)
 
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                            Mark Vita
                            Dartmouth College
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