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Math Geniuses, Help!! "SLAG" Odd/Even Analysis - Chart IReply
IMHO, while it may be entertaining, it's a total waste of time to attempt frequency analysis and seriously conclude there is any meaningful action possible out of it. There are painstaking measures taken to ensure randomness in virtually any government-run lottery. You might as well take up astrology and reading tea leaves. There are plenty of extremely well compensated Wall Street fund managers and Ivy-League-graduate mathematical geniuses working for them to gain any potential edge over the co
May 23, 2022, 7:33 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Megaball predictionReply
Analyzing numbers is fun, but there is hardly any reason to believe that lotteries, at least government-run ones in democratic countries, should be anything other than random. If you want to find an edge in lotteries, look for flaws in the prize structures, not the number draws. There's the famous story of the Midwest couple Jerry and Marge Selbee who did just that. They found a lottery with a prize structure such that jackpots that were not won were distributed down to lower prize categori
May 10, 2023, 7:55 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Chi-Squared Goodness of Fit Test for LotteriesReply
IMHO, in general government-run lotteries (in the western world at least) are not going to be exploitable in terms of statistical frequency attack. A lot of time, energy and money(!) is obviously put into trying. Eventually, if you look at enough lotteries, you'll find improbable outcomes and what appears to be non-randomness . Highly likely, that doesn't mean there is a flaw. Just if you sample enough, you get unusual patterns. (It's inevitable.) The people who have successfully exploited lotte
Mar 1, 2023, 2:46 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Win the Lottery - Your Retirement Strategy (or maybe not)!
Suppose you just turned age 25. You look around at the state of the world and realize it's a dumpster fire : Soaring inflation, completely dysfunctional government, war in Europe, climate going haywire, financial markets tanking, flying anywhere is a nightmare, COVID might be making a comeback, you just had a bad relationship break-up, AND, last, but not least, the U.S. President is doing air handshakes (caught at least twice on camera)!. Is he seeing a ghost? . You've decided on a retirement
Jul 20, 2022, 5:22 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum