What happens when you mix humour and theoretical physics
Ok, in-jokes abound, but this should still raise a few smiles... I was in hysterics 20+ years ago when I first read it, and the effect was the same the second time round, five minutes ago...
If you don't find it funny, it just confirms what you always thought about theoreticians.
Well, yeah, I know it’s luckier to use your birthday and your phone number, but mine is 2111198139544997743, and how likely does that sound to come up?
I'm not sure why you find it funny. The chance of her own birthday and own phone number occuring in the lottery draw is astronomically small. She has a very good point.
But everyone knows that it is luckier to use your birthday and your phone number!!
Luckier, yes. More probable, no. Admittedly the calculation is quite complex as it requires a convolution of the PDF (probability density function) and the LDF (luck distribution function), but the conclusion is that using your own details will always result in less wins that using someone else's - anyone else's.