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Why maths shows you probably won't win £100 million predicting World Cup winners
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- Maths expert at the University of Sheffield uses maths to demonstrate how unlikely it is to predict the correct outcome of all the World Cup matches
- To guarantee success in predicting the correct outcome of all the matches, betting at a rate of one bet a second you'd have to have started placing bets more than a billion years before the universe existed
- Mathematical formulas suggest you'd need to make more than a million times the number of grains of sand on the planet worth of guesses to take home the cash.
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Russia, a betting company has launched a promotion offering a £100 million prize if entrants correctly predict the outcome of all 64 matches in the FIFA World Cup in Russia.
However, to guarantee success in predicting the correct outcome of all the matches, betting at a rate of one bet a second you'd have to have started placing bets more than a billion years before the universe existed, according to an academic from the University of Sheffield.
Dr Fionntan Roukema, a University Teacher in Mathematics at the University of Sheffield, suggests that guessing randomly, you'd need to make more than a million times the number of grains of sand on the planet worth of guesses to take home the cash.
To guarantee success in predicting the correct outcome of all the matches, betting at a rate of one bet a second you'd have to have started placing bets more than a billion years before the universe existed.
As Dr Roukema explained: 'I was a huge football fan during the golden era when Hristo Stoichkov won a golden boot, Ray Houghton lobbed Gianluca Pagliuca, and Gazza performed an outlandish chip over Colin Hendry! But that was the nineties and I hadn't found mathematics. Now I know some mathematics, but I've become 100 per cent ignorant of contemporary football. However, even though I have a complete lack of footballing knowledge, I'd like to explain to you how we can win the £100 million prize by only multiplying some numbers together, using a little imagination, and applying a modest amount of elbow grease.
'In order to guarantee a win, you need to bet on all possible outcomes. There more than five octillion different possible outcomes in the World Cup, where one octilion is a billion billion, billions - which is a lot of billions. To put the number five billion billion billion in context, this is about the same as the area of 10,000 planet earths put together and measured in millimeters squared!'
Dr Roukema suggests that:
- Betting at a rate of one bet a second you'd have to have started placing bets more than a billion years before the universe existed to guarantee a win.
- Instead of going back to before the Big Bang to place bets, an alternative strategy would be to ask your friends to place bets for you. However, even if you take all humans who have ever lived on this planet back to the birth of the universe and persuaded them all to bet once a second until the beginning of the World Cup 2018, you still wouldn't have enough time to guarantee a bet with the correct outcome!
- Even if you did somehow manage to make all possible bets, and had to record all your bets on individual bits of paper, then you'd have more a billion piles of paper, with each pile stacked up to the surface of the Sun, so some at the top of the pile might burn and you might not be able to claim your prize.
- Even if you're the greatest master of football knowhow on the planet and you're able to predict the outcome of any football game with 90 per cent success, then your odds aren't much better than 1 in a 1000 when you place a single bet.
Dr Roukema added: 'The mathematics of why there are so many choices boils down to there being a total of 64 games in the World Cup, which is large, and the incredibly fast growth of exponentiation means the number of possible options is outrageous. Almost as outrageous as the 1986 Argentinian handball or England's record with penalties!'
The University of Sheffield's School of Mathematics and Statistics is placed in the world top 150 maths departments according to the Times Higher Education World Rankings for Physical Sciences. It is home to experts in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and probability and statistics. Their research is helping to bring new understanding to the complex, intricate mathematical structures that the modern world is built on, with applications in disciplines ranging from finance to healthcare.
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With almost 29,000 of the brightest students from over 140 countries, learning alongside over 1,200 of the best academics from across the globe, the University of Sheffield is one of the world's leading universities.
A member of the UK's prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, Sheffield offers world-class teaching and research excellence across a wide range of disciplines.
Unified by the power of discovery and understanding, staff and students at the university are committed to finding new ways to transform the world we live in.
Sheffield is the only university to feature in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2018 and for the last eight years has been ranked in the top five UK universities for Student Satisfaction by Times Higher Education.
Sheffield has six Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields.
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'In order to guarantee a win, you need to bet on all possible outcomes. There more than five octillion different possible outcomes in the World Cup, where one octilion is a billion billion, billions - which is a lot of billions. To put the number five billion billion billion in context, this is about the same as the area of 10,000 planet earths put together and measured in millimeters squared!'
Dr Roukema suggests that:
- Betting at a rate of one bet a second you'd have to have started placing bets more than a billion years before the universe existed to guarantee a win.
- Instead of going back to before the Big Bang to place bets, an alternative strategy would be to ask your friends to place bets for you. However, even if you take all humans who have ever lived on this planet back to the birth of the universe and persuaded them all to bet once a second until the beginning of the World Cup 2018, you still wouldn't have enough time to guarantee a bet with the correct outcome!
- Even if you did somehow manage to make all possible bets, and had to record all your bets on individual bits of paper, then you'd have more a billion piles of paper, with each pile stacked up to the surface of the Sun, so some at the top of the pile might burn and you might not be able to claim your prize.
- Even if you're the greatest master of football knowhow on the planet and you're able to predict the outcome of any football game with 90 per cent success, then your odds aren't much better than 1 in a 1000 when you place a single bet.
Dr Roukema added: 'The mathematics of why there are so many choices boils down to there being a total of 64 games in the World Cup, which is large, and the incredibly fast growth of exponentiation means the number of possible options is outrageous. Almost as outrageous as the 1986 Argentinian handball or England's record with penalties!'
The University of Sheffield's School of Mathematics and Statistics is placed in the world top 150 maths departments according to the Times Higher Education World Rankings for Physical Sciences. It is home to experts in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, and probability and statistics. Their research is helping to bring new understanding to the complex, intricate mathematical structures that the modern world is built on, with applications in disciplines ranging from finance to healthcare.
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The University of Sheffield
With almost 29,000 of the brightest students from over 140 countries, learning alongside over 1,200 of the best academics from across the globe, the University of Sheffield is one of the world's leading universities.
A member of the UK's prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, Sheffield offers world-class teaching and research excellence across a wide range of disciplines.
Unified by the power of discovery and understanding, staff and students at the university are committed to finding new ways to transform the world we live in.
Sheffield is the only university to feature in The Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to Work For 2018 and for the last eight years has been ranked in the top five UK universities for Student Satisfaction by Times Higher Education.
Sheffield has six Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields.
Global research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Glaxo SmithKline, Siemens and Airbus, as well as many UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.
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