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I need help with odds calculationsReply
Not sure how Bill Gates got into the discussion. Actually the poster who started this thread was doing fine as long as he stucked to questions about calculating lottery games odds, it was when he assumed such knowledge could be used to calculate a winning combination that the confusion started. Reminds me of the time I instructed a member how he could use copy and paste in Notepad to replace the numbers in a lottery wheel and he replied that was easy now tell me how to write a program u
Apr 18, 2016, 1:11 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Consecutive numbers in the Pick 6 lottery have surprisingly high probability but still < 50%Reply
solid ideas! Important though is to get idea about probability differentials, (will need to enroll back in combinatorics class at some college:) why i say differential is that although is quite a feat to get exact numbers right, any slight probability % variation (as ie 50% for 49 game for consecutives and therefore play the opposite and skip draws when some high occurance of consecutives happen) will give you an advantage over reasonable amount of time, all of it can be calculated and probab
Apr 3, 2009, 10:51 pm - edge - Mathematics Forum

Consecutive numbers in the Pick 6 lottery have surprisingly high probability but still < 50%Reply
My pleasure! Given some time i will try to calculate probability odds for mega and power ball as well as Keno (Keno consecutive numbers probability i immediately see as higher, not formally but by just looking at draw history patterns) these probabilities might not give you an edge insofar predicting actual numbers, but they might just give a hand in applying best possible ratio (mixture) of different distance between the numbers . For calculations i will use Math Cad, or Mathematica (mat
Apr 3, 2009, 5:59 pm - edge - Mathematics Forum

Look at this and calculate the Odds...Reply
Try to Calculate the odds of a particular or specific set of numbers not showing up within a certain time frame. Special attention on the specific. Hi RJOH... How are you ? Needed to say that.... at least every 4 or 5 years that go by anyway. LOL
Feb 8, 2008, 11:54 am - WIN D - Mathematics Forum

Compute this !Reply
Quote: Originally posted by WIN D on December 23, 2004A Numbers First for Louisiana LotteryBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ Anyone who won the Louisiana Lottery's Pick 3 daily game earlier this week should have tried again the next night, too _ with the same numbers. Zero, five and one were winners for the Louisiana Lottery's Pick 3 daily game on Tuesday. They were winners again on Wednesday. That's the first time in the near 11-year history of the lottery that that's happened for Pick 3, said lottery s
Dec 25, 2004, 3:56 pm - Badger - Mathematics Forum

Compute this !Reply
A Numbers First for Louisiana LotteryBATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ Anyone who won the Louisiana Lottery's Pick 3 daily game earlier this week should have tried again the next night, too _ with the same numbers. Zero, five and one were winners for the Louisiana Lottery's Pick 3 daily game on Tuesday. They were winners again on Wednesday. That's the first time in the near 11-year history of the lottery that that's happened for Pick 3, said lottery spokesman Dudley Lehew. What the odds are I couldn't e
Dec 23, 2004, 1:29 pm - WIN D - Mathematics Forum

Hmmm, law of averages perhaps ?
Hello all, i stumbled onto this site and got sucked in ! So this is my first post, please be gentle :)I have been working on various programs for four years on off and refuse (stubbonly) to believe that it's impossible to predict the lottery (yea i know call me stupid).Mathematically (i'm no mathematician) each lotto draw is an independent dvent which takes no notice of any previous draws or results. Physically the balls cannot have a memory or a program, i understand all this however, it seem
Nov 28, 2004, 11:22 am - TycMozo - Mathematics Forum

Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
The odds are posted on the Texas Lottery website and only you know why it was necessary to calculate and show them here. You really don't want to understand. If there really are two jackpots, There are, stop nagging. From the lottery's point of view, they know only one three digit number will be drawn and there are 990 other unplayed numbers by the player believing they improved their odds to 100 to 1. The odds stay the same, I suggest that you stop drinking alcohol. The amount of
Aug 8, 2013, 3:54 am - SergeM - Mathematics Forum

Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
I pasted the correctly calculated odds above. The odds are posted on the Texas Lottery website and only you know why it was necessary to calculate and show them here. Jackpots are paid for the extremes, so there are 2 jackpots. If there really are two jackpots, someone is ignoring the fact one ticket can only win one jackpot and believe it or not none of the other prizes with two chances to win can't win twice either. The odds are correct on the website (1 in 2,704,156) because once
Aug 7, 2013, 1:24 am - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
Playing more tickets increases a persons chances of winning but does not affect the odds for the game. Buying more tickets gives a slightly better percentage chance of winning, but it doesn't change the fact there is still only one way to win. If 100 chances out of 1000 chances are purchased, the overall chances are 10% or 1 in 10. There can only be one winning chance out of the 100 chances and there are still 900 chances of losing. If the odds were expressed of chances of losing (900) comp
Jul 29, 2013, 4:14 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum