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Originally Posted by Chas H
This is correct. But this is not the way the lotteries I have seen are conducted. Are we still talking lottery?
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I've never run a lottery and I don't know whether they have a set of rules. Good points.
I assumed that they draw without replacement but from separate bins (that's how I'd do it if I ran the damned thing!). If they draw without replacement from the same bin then the n-1, n-2 ... certainly holds.