CA automata applied to lottery

Reply #8

jokerh1977 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:47:57 GMT

I understand that Fernando, I said it could be argued back and forth. :) I'm not one for semantics, and what to name whatever we call patterns well... there's is no arguement here one way or another.

However, cellular automata has some very interesting applications. Regarding the above mentioned program, I see that since I posted this notice it has been downloaded over eighty times. Nobody has made any comment regarding us applying this though (well, Todd did ;).

Here is my own experim... [ More ]

Reply #7

EXCALIBUR — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:23:16 GMT

The only use-able practical connection between so-called Random-Events that I can see, is Statistics, that is the one thing that Ties or Glues them together. that is other than an event that it is the result or outcome of the event that precedes it.

Particular statistics of one event precede and seem to announce particular statistics of another event and other than that they are completely unrelated (To each other), it is a weird happening, it might happen only for a short or long tim... [ More ]

Reply #6

Briand069 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:21:06 GMT

I don't know if this will help or not, but on the CAlottery website under the MegaMillions section the past winning draws are listed in draw order, not the downloadable text file though.

And it looks like they go up to 200 draws.

Brian

Reply #5

jokerh1977 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:18:27 GMT

I just rechecked it and he does mention the videos but he does not say how many recorded draws were needed. He only had about fifty or sixty though. I guess large number is not needed though. Perhaps twenty draws would be enough starting out

Reply #4

jokerh1977 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:12:31 GMT

Thanks Todd!!! I've read his text for megamillions in the zip file and thought he only lists 20 past drawings. Didn't he say the videos of the past twenty drawings can be found on their web site. I'll go back and re-read it though.

Reply #3

Todd — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:45:06 GMT

Yes, although Java can be fairly easily converted to C. With a little more effort the code can be converted to something else, like Visual Basic.

Reply #2

Todd — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:44:08 GMT

On of the difficulties I can see here is that the idea requires the history of Mega Millions drawings in drawn order. I personally am not aware of a source for that info, other than sitting down and watching all those videos, and manually recording it.

I'll make a deal with someone however. If someone would like to provide the data, I'll see if there's a way I can store it on the site.

Reply #1

jokerh1977 — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:36:40 GMT

Is it written in Java? Would we need a java compiler

CA automata applied to lottery

jokerh1977 — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 22:13:27 GMT

Hey all,

Long time lurker here, but new member!

I'm interested in the sciences that revolve around finding patterns in seemingly random events. This of course can be argued back and forth, but cellular automation is a model used for finding these patterns. Here is an overview of CA automata: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automata

Anywho, there is this fella who works with these models for logistics, etc... and in what he calls fun he wrote a model to analyze megamillions. Hi... [ More ]