Article ID: CBB999761947

The Loterias Lisbonenses of Francisco Giraldes Barba (2023)

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The extraction of lotteries has always been a problematic matter. In the early days, when two large wheels were used – one for the tickets, another for the corresponding prices – the whole process could take many days. In Portugal, in 1834, a book was published, written by a member of the Real Academia das Cincias, describing his invention: a method of implementation of a lottery with 22,100 tickets, which needed nothing more than a common deck of 52 playing cards. We try, in the text below, to make clear the ingenuity of the corresponding process.

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Authors & Contributors
Saraiva, Luis Manuel Ribeiro
Almeida, Bruno
Anderson, Ian
Caramalho Domingues, João
Carolino, L. M.
Carolino, Luís Miguel
Journals
Historia Mathematica
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Almagest
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Gesnerus
Publishers
Springer
W. W. Norton & Co.
Concepts
Mathematics
Games
History of science, as a discipline
Recreational mathematics
Textbooks
Cosmology
People
Teixeira, Francisco Gomes
Bézout, Étienne
Borri, Cristoforo
Cardano, Girolamo
Cesàro, Ernesto
Cunha, José Anastácio da
Time Periods
19th century
16th century
17th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Portugal
Spain
England
Great Britain
Europe
Italy
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Academia das Ciências, Lisbon
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