Not the Perlish way, but let's look at it mathemagically:
If you have n Numbers and 6 are drawn, there will be (n-6), which are not drawn. Let's say all seven number are drawn, but just the first 6 count. There are n! possibilities to draw all the numbers, but the first six numbers can appear in 6! different ways and the other numbers in (n-6)! different ways. Thus, you have n! / ( 6! * ( n - 6 )! ). This is the binomial coefficient C(n, 6). (In the above explanation n! is the factorial of n, where n! = n * (n - 1)! * ... * 2 * 1).
Now C(6, 6) = 1; C(7, 6) = 7; C(8, 6) = 28; C(9, 6) = 84
Hope this helped.
CombatSquirrel.
Update: This is exactly Anonymous Monk's program above :).
Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.

In reply to Re: Lottery combinations golf by CombatSquirrel
in thread Lottery combinations golf by Cody Pendant

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