‘Very Unlikely’ doesn’t really do it
justice.
The odds of
being struck by lightning in Canada are less than one in a million.
The odds of
winning the Atlantic Lotto are one in 14million.
And Peter
McCathie has beaten odds of 2.6 trillion to one by doing both.
The Nova Scotia
man survived the lightning strike while wading through the shallow waters
of a lake aged 14, and this weekend collected $1million (£640,400) with a
co-worker in the Atlantic Lottery.
CTV News Canada
wanted to know just how unlikely this was, so they got in touch with University
of Monckton mathematics professor Sophie Leger.
‘By assuming
that these events happened independently… so probability of lotto… times
another probability of lightning – since there are two people that got hit by
lightning – we get approximately one in 2.6 trillion,’ she said.
Peter says he
plans to take his wife on a second honeymoon with the money, while his
co-winner Diana Miller says she is going to go to Cancun, Mexico.
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