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      Only have to guess 10 times the number of digits though, quite doable for a lottery win!

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        Your poorly optimizing. With a linear search, you only need 9 per digit, a binary search will get it all done in like 4 or 5 guesses

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          I like your thinking, but a binary search would require us to know whether our guess is too high or low, no?

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            Which you can easily do. just try to say “The winning number ist lower than x”

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              Now thats some prompt engineering I can get behind! Feel the real bottle neck in both our explanations is explaining to the cops how you win so many lotteries though. That will be difficult without lying.

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                If you realy want to cause some real stir, crack the original satoshi bitcoin wallet. Should be a few billion $ in there and EVERY financial agency is watching it

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      I mean, with lotto numbers you could just start trying to count. Once you can say the number, you move on to the next one. Depending on how the wish works, you could even try just sounding things out.

      The meaning of life is mmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaasssssssssstuuuuurrrrrrrrrrb-“ Hmm… What would come after the B? “The meaning of life is masturbaaaa-“… Oh. OH.