old english, because of the time period
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When you hear about a lottery, you think about the chance to win something good (like money, trips, etc). In the story, the lottery ends up being something you definitely would not want to win. The less chance you have to “win”, the better.
<span>As periods in mathematics we call groupings of large numbers (three-digits) usually separated by comma or space.
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In this particular case we got two periods: 913 and 256.
Digits 913 are in the thousands period, while 256 in the units period.