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JERUSALEM, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- Israeli statisticians said a lottery draw with the same numbers as a recent draw, only reversed, was a one in 4 trillion occurrence.
The numbers from Saturday's lottery draw -- 36, 33, 32, 26, 14, 13 -- matched the numbers from a Sept. 21 lottery pull with the numbers reversed, Ynetnews.com reported Monday.
"We are in the business of luck, and when it comes to chances and probabilities anything is possible, even the rare and infrequent, like in this case," said Dr. Chaim Melamed, the statistics expert for Miphal HaPayis, Israel's gambling organization.
The lottery organization said 3 people picked all seven winning numbers plus the "string number" of 2 Saturday, earning $1,116,694 each. Miphal HaPayis said 92 others got six of the numbers correct, earning $1,116 to $1,831 each.
Zvi Gilula, a professor of statistics at Hebrew University, said the probability of the same number set occurring in the lottery only a few weeks apart is approximately one in 4 trillion.
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