National Lottery (United Kingdom) the games. The majority of National Lottery draws take place on live television. The first National Lottery show (entitled "The National Lottery Live: The First Draw") was at 7 pm on Saturday 19 November 1994. Presented by Noel Edmonds, this was an hour long special, in which 49 contestants competed to become the first person to start the draw, the winner being 18-year-old Deborah Walsh. The first number to be drawn was 30. For its first few years, the TV show took the title "The National Lottery Live", and was presented mainly by Anthea Turner or Bob Monkhouse. Other notable
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