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What Does It Take To Win (Mathematically Speaking?)Reply
RJOH - The public motive behind government involvement in lotteries isn't out of step with the motives behind the people who exploit the fact it exists as an institution to make money from it indirectly. Government lottery operations are there to persuade the population to voluntarily contribute money to ultimately be spent by governments on government priorities. In order to do that the lottery administrations have to maintain enough of a level of security in their methods and operations to pro
Mar 19, 2011, 10:48 am - JosephusMinimus - Mathematics Forum

Pick 3 Paradox? Question of probabilityReply
I'd say if you live in Western Canada,the odds are pretty good. The last three draws were593, 953, 953. And here's me blaming it on our greedy government rather than mathematical odds.
Nov 12, 2005, 2:14 am - paint1 - Mathematics Forum

help please with figuring outReply
Quote: Originally posted by wannawinnow on September 16, 2004please tell me if any one can ,, what amount of taxes should i expect to pay out for a winning lottery ticket for a pick 4 and winning amount of 2500.00$It would depend on your tax bracket at the end of the year. In California there is no state tax, but the IRS still wants their money! If you play on-line like it is totally tax free because they do not report any winnings to any government. They are in Costa Rica.
Sep 17, 2004, 12:43 am - CalifDude - Mathematics Forum

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

The odds questionReply
As someone else wrote, you've simply changed it into a 4/47 game. Whether the first two numbers drawn are 1 and 2, or 49 and 48, or anything else, is irrelevant. You always have 47 numbers left, 4 of which will be winning numbers selected at random. If you could buy a ticket like this... choose just 4 numbers because we give you the first two for free ... with a jackpot of $7 million, even with no other prizes and no profit for the government, the ticket would have to cost $40!
Jun 16, 2018, 1:22 pm - Tucker Black - 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

In need of a bayesianReply
congrat's U have given psyko another reason 2 HATE D RNG sssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If anyone can hack government computers 2 steal defense secrets, steal UR identity THEN put D human element back into D software, I don't care how random D RNG numbers L@@K !!!!!!!!!!!!! DON't play RNG drawn LOTTERY!!!!! REMEMBER^^^^PSYKO is CRAZY NOT STUPID LOL PSYKO is need of a buckyesian $$$$$$2
Jun 14, 2010, 5:20 pm - psykomo - Mathematics Forum

21 CombinationsReply
So in 1 loop even with the repeating nature after 6280 rotations will I find the first UK lotto in drawn order using your algorithm or do I need to (re-seed for lack of better word) after 6280 rotations. Like I said I can do 6 billion rotations in 1 hour single-threaded. If I can find a way to rotate multi-threaded I could quadruple that with my quad processor. My background is I'm a senior software engineer that writes low level network file system drivers for 20 years. My expertise is in writi
Mar 17, 2009, 5:16 am - Moses - Mathematics Forum

I Always thought an 85% or 90% number reduction would be enough.Reply
Thanks for the replies everyone ..... and John..... thanks for the printout. Noticed that CA had a Straight hit off the list ....a little early. I really wish I could take advantage of some of the more obvious filters at the right times ...... after the fact they always seem so completely obvious .....of course. Perhaps.....if I were smarter it would be obvious before hand. I always think to myself...... If a smart person had the same information I had worked on at the time .
Sep 3, 2009, 10:06 am - WIN D - Mathematics Forum