Many thousands of people take the trouble of driving to Floriana every month to deliver their VAT receipts in the hope that one day one of their receipts may be drawn by whoever is doing the drawing of the VAT lottery.

In the absence of any statistics, I very roughly estimate that 180,000 households will each deliver a very conservative 200 receipts.

This would total 36 million receipts. I am no mathematician but could someone so inclined be good enough to work out for us what the odds are that one person has his name drawn twice in the same draw? This has happened twice within months. Some luck!

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