California State Lottery to be confused with the gold-colored ball in Mega Millions, which also is known as the "Mega Number".) The California Lottery has offered a number of jackpot games, beginning with its "6-49" game in 1986, which became a 53-number game (drawing a seventh, "bonus" ball) in 1990, then changed again, to a 51-number game. The current variant, 5/47 + 1/27, began in 2000. On February 16th, 2002, the California Lottery's then-highest payout of $193 million was split by three tickets. Other big jackpots include $141 million dollars on Saturday June 23rd, 2001 that was won by one ticket, a $122
Lottery mathematics winning numbers from the 6 winning numbers. This means that there are 6 - n losing numbers, which are chosen from the 43 losing numbers in formula_8 ways. The total number of combinations giving that result is, as stated above, the first number multiplied by the second. The expression is therefore formula_9. This can be written in a general form for all lotteries as: formula_10 where formula_11 is the number of balls in lottery, formula_12 is the number of balls in a single ticket, and formula_13 is the number of matching balls for a winning ticket. The generalisation of this