Problem 1713. Can you beat the lottery?

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Armando Villani on 22 Jun 2014

You need to test with more than one number. Many attempt (and succeed) with a static vector solution until they are lucky.

Rainaire Hansford on 24 May 2019

When i run the program it says fn is undefined. Please explain

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