An Elderly Mathematician Hacked the Lottery for $26 Million
How Jerry Selbee thrived with a simple algebraic solution.
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4 min readNov 26, 2020
On a fateful Saturday morning, Marge Selbee walked into the kitchen to fire up a pot of coffee.
Her husband, Jerry, was drawing on a notepad. Numbers and formulas danced across his page like a stiff-armed ballerina. This wasn’t unusual for…
