Original Blog Entry: Pick 3 permutation counter works, pick 5 version not so much...

hypersoniq — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:36:25 GMT

The pick 3 permutation counter ran successfully and validating the box hit was easy. The pick 5 version is correct in the straight hit counter, but the box or permutation counts are not passing validation, the program looks like it worked but the boxed counts do not match the number observed during validation... now to figure out why... I think it has to do with the uniqueness cases... there are 3 possibilities on the pick 3;

3 unique digits

One pair

Triples

The pick 5 adds to that possibility matrix...

5 unique digits

One pair

Two pair

Three of a kind

Full house (3 of the same digit and a different pair)

Four of a kind

5 of a kind.

That is 7 potential outcome patterns vs 3. I wrote the pick 3 version with 3 separate conditional statements to handle each case, and I wrote the pick 5 version with all 7 of the above conditional patterns in mind, so it must be in that section where the disconnect is happening...

So will be skipping a planned test of the pick 5 and instead rolling with 095 and 667 again in the pick 3 through Oct. 31... [ More ]