I won a lottery jackpot using simple equation we all know
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A SIMPLE equation known by virtually everyone has landed one man a lottery jackpot, with a payday worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Now, he's shared his secret formula for success.
Jonathan Ruby of Raleigh, North Carolina is a self-professed math lover, who just won a $192,941 state jackpot on May 11.
The 64-year-old bartender bought a $1 Cash 5 lottery ticket that had the winning numbers 3, 14, 15, 31 and 41.
According to the North Carolina Lottery, he did it by basing his picks on the mathematical constant Pi. That's the number that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159.
He told them "I’ve always been an extremely big math person,” adding “I kept seeing that number so my karma told me to use it.” Ruby went on, saying “I even lived at a 314 address as a child.”
The North Carolinian earned one of three winning tickets in the drawing, with the total cash prize worth $578,823.
No word on how the other two winners picked their numbers.
According to UPI, after state and federal tax withholdings, Ruby took home $137,012. The bartender told the outlet he'll use the winnings to pay off bills, and put the rest toward saving for retirement.
One post on the lottery site quipped, "congratulations on having one of the three tickets. It’s better to have a piece of the pi than none of the pi."
Cash 5 tickets are $1 and drawings are held every night across the country.
According to officials, it is one of four lottery games in North Carolina.
It says players have the option of buying their tickets through a retail location or Online Play, either through the lottery’s website or with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.
North Carolina Lottery says the odds of winning a Cash 5 jackpot are 1 in 962,598.
