Quad-Duplication Frequency (PB)

Reply #4

LadyMylena — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:06:11 GMT

Thank you, Guru! I've been to the site many times, and have even seen that paragraph, but had no idea that doc was there

Reply #3

Guru101 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:31:14 GMT

Go to Powerball.com. On the left side, click Powerball Numbers . At the bottom of the page there is a box with a paragraph that reads:

Every attempt is made to ensure that this list of numbers is accurate, the official winning numbers are recorded in the official draw files as certified by an independent accounting firm. Winning numbers are not official until confirmed by the auditing firm of Harvey, Covington Thomas, LLC. Click here if you are having trouble seeing the most recent numbers.

Reply #2

LadyMylena — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:29:01 GMT

How did you get the other pre and post draws, but not 2004? I would actually like to have that testpb.doc data, where do I get it?

BTW, I like your name TinFoilHat. lol

Reply #1

RJOh — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:11:23 GMT

If you check just the official PB drawings with itself going back to 04/22/92, you'll find:

TOTAL MATCHES

WB PB

MATCH 0 = 1020699 23666

MATCH 1 = 587963 13519

MATCH 2 = 107313 2396

MATCH 3 = 7169 202

MATCH 4 = 150 2

MATCH 5 = 2 1

01/09/08 - 02 13 20 21 23 +24

02/08/03 - 02 13 20 21 23 +35

12/27/00 - 15 22 24 32 39 +18

04/03/93 - 15 22 24 32 39 +18

I checked the above figures with USAMega file.

Quad-Duplication Frequency (PB)

TinFoilHat85705 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:35:42 GMT

I'm new to this forum and site. I did a search to see if anyone else had ever discussed this topic and didn't find anything, but my apologies if it's not a new discussion.

My interest lately with the PB is in frequency where 4 of the 5 white balls match any other 4 in any other particular PB draw. I created a macro in Excel to give me all examples of this (much higher percentage than anticipated).

Mostly, in the public's version of drawn numbers, quads don't show up as often as when you ha... [ More ]