mathmatics and a conspiracy

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cosmotravis — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:42:12 GMT

just talked to another player after mentioning this to him. He uses this as an example.

shuffle a deck of cards

the chances are the same as dealing out six consecutive black number cards including the ace.

try it... not gonna do that too many times out of a hundred.

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just seems kinda shady, they could toss a low number in there to kinda make it look good.

guess they want all the marbles.

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going back to the math, let me give this a try

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hennybogan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:26:52 GMT

Looking at this very quickly, and perhaps not seeing the entire picture, this is what I see now.

First, if the Lotto consists of balls numbered from 1 to 50, then the difference between the

high ball drawn and the low ball drawn varies from 5 to 49. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 = 6 - 1 = 5 and

1 - x - x - x - x - 50 = 50 - 1 = 49. So, the differences for a Lotto consisting of 6 balls are:

5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,

37,38,39... [ More ]

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pacattack05 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:06:03 GMT

Every combo has the exact same chance as showing. Given enough time, even 1-2-3-4-5-6 will show. It's just not it's time yet.

In your last example of 21-24-32-33-35-37, how long before that same exact combo will show again? A very very long time.

mathmatics and a conspiracy

cosmotravis — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:16:23 GMT

I've noticed that when the illinois lotto gets above 3 or 4 million

they sometimes draw some unusual numbers

to this day, i'm convinced the fix is in to inflate the grand prize

which in turn brings in more players

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it's been 18 years since my last advanced mathmatics class,

maybe someone can help me out. whats the odds that the

difference between the highest number and lowest is less than 21?

10/15/2008

Lotto

24-31-32-33-35-40

9/29/2008... [ More ]