in reply to RE: New Jersey Lottery Probability
in thread New Jersey Lottery Probability

You are of course correct it's calculating permutations not combinations, the following sorts that out. No I'm not going to do all obfuscation stuff on it :-0

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my ($number, $times) = (50, 5); print &permutation($number, $times) * 36 / ($times + 1); sub permutation { my ($prob, $number, $times) = (1, @_); while($times) { $prob *= ($number - $times + 1) / $times--; }; $prob; };