lottery is hardly one of the things you are likely to do in a lifetime.Indeed, you have a higher chance of being struck by lightning or landing an Oscar.But one mathematician managed to defy the odds and win the lottery 14 times.Romania-born Stefan Mandel managed the amazing feat over decades - winning millions with his team in the process.He worked out the lucky formula while working as an economist in communist-era Romania in the late 1950s, which had a government-sanctioned lottery.The maths whizz stumbled upon a maths formula which could predict five out of six winning numbers in a system with up to 40 numbers.He eventually tested his creation, along with three of his friends who had joined in with him.The numbers guru hoped to bag.
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