Which lottery? Can believe you haven't done some basic reading on all the odds of winning on all the lotteries in the world just to prove your point, it's embarrassing.
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oh, yeah... i'm sure that the human world has numbers bigger than FUCKING 128 bits, let alone 256
no, if it has less than 40 digits in it, it's irrelevant
I don't really care that's the point. Unlikely to win either so I can't be bothered to work out the chances of it.
so, your argument is:
you are stupid because you didn't do some dumbass procedure even though everyone knows the chances of winning the lottery are at least somewhere around the population of the country
yeah, i did! there's far less than 77 digits in the number involved in the number of tickets bought in a fucking lottery, maybe it is 8 in the USA for the most subscribed lol
i don't need to "work that out" that is so elementary it's retarded
and, on your point - that's my point, it's not probable, at all, and that it has happened twice makes no further difference to the probability
The fact you found it embarrassing was the bizarre part for me no one is genuinely expecting a return on investment for these things outside the scope of education.
The chance to win is not a probability of finding a 256 bit number it is a range less than that. Also, the chances of mining a block is deterministic based on the participant computational load. This means if you were the only miner for 3 weeks you would find a block every 10 minutes with a bitaxe. It feels like you don't actually understand the probabilities here.
it feels like you think 5 less digits out of 77 counts for something
So, you still don't understand. If I was the only miner and my CPU was the device, I would still find a block ever 10 minutes after 3 weeks. Do you understand what that means? My CPU at 4 GHz does AT MAXIMUM 4 million calculations per core. That's at most 8 digits. How could I possibly win a block every 10 minutes with only 8 digits of computing power? Because the number range is variable compared to other participants. The more computational power the more chance. But even with less computational power, the chance is never zero.
To put it another way you don't need to be faster than a bear to evade one. You just are more likely to when running away in a group when others are slower than you.