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Bishop, Texas. April 5th, 2010. Ek 61-year-old mahila ek single pump gas station ke andar aati hai. Vah Joan R. Ginther hain, ek retired math professor. >> I will take 200 scratch off tickets. Friendo. >> Vah unhe parking lot mein scratch karti hain. Unmein se ek $10 million ke layak hai. Yeh chauthi baar hai jab unhone aisa kiya hai. Kismat se aisa hone ke odds 1 in 18 seextilian hain yani ki 18 ke baad 21 zeros, jo dharti par maujood ret ke har ek kaṇ se bhi zyada hai. Joan Ginther lucky nahi hain. Har saal lotteries lakho logon se billions of dollars leti hain. Unhe is tarah design kiya jata hai ki unhe haraya na ja sake. Math ko is tarah banaya jata hai ki guarantee unhi ki jeet ho. Joan Ginther ne us math mein ek crack dhoodh nikala aur iska istemal karke $20 million le liye jo vah vaapas nahi pa sake. Unhone yeh kaise kiya, yeh aisi kahani hai. ​Joan Ray Ginther, born 1948, Bishop, Texas. Bishop Corpus Christi se 40 miles south mein hai, ek farming town jo cotton fields aur oil pump jacks ke beech fasa hai. 3,300 log, ek supermarket, ek gas station jismein lottery machine hai, ek high school jiska graduating class 56 students ka hai. Us 56 ke class mein, Joan sabse smartest valedictorian national merit scholar thi. Teachers ke paas 11th grade tak aate-aate unhe padhane ke liye math khatam ho gaya tha. Unhone 1966 mein Texas State University ke liye Bishop chhod diya. Mathematics major, graduated 1970, apne department mein top par. Vah vahin nahi ruki. 1970 ke fall mein, unhone Stanford mein statistics ke PhD program mein enroll kiya. Vah 22 ki thi. 41 ke cohort mein teen mahilaon mein se ek, 1970s ke shuruat ka Stanford American probability theory ka center tha. Iski faculty ne insurance ke liye, weather forecasting ke liye, Pentagon ke shuruati computer simulations ke liye models banaye the. Joan ne unke under padhai ki. Unki dissertation 1976 mein file ki gayi thi. Topic, ek former classmate ke mutabik jo 35 saal baad ek journalist se baat karega, >> there she is, third row, left side, >> state lottery products ka statistical distribution tha. Specifically, lottery operators geographic regions mein winning tickets ko kaise allocate karte hain.