Can You Crack The Lottery, and Write Your Name in Sand?

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
5 min readApr 18, 2020

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If you play roulette, you should know that, on average, you will lose money. This is because of the ‘0’ number, and which changes the odds to be in the favour of the casino. As we have 37 numbers, of which 18 are black, the bet for black gives the odds of:

Odds = 18/37 = 0.484

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.