Combinations and Statistics Help

Reply #3

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:19:55 GMT

Developer

If I were doing this I would use different code for each. The first for non-bonus ball games and

then one for each of the other four. Just prompt the user for bonus ball infomation and then route

it to the correct code. Using one formula to cover all the different options would be a hair puller.

Below is the code I used for a combo, odds and probability calculator written in qb64 for non bonus

games. As you can see I was not concerned with the lines of code . The Downloa... [ More ]

Reply #2

RJOh — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:21:25 GMT

Ohio once had a game that picked an extra ball for its 6/49 game from its main pool.

combination size 6

basic pool size 49

(B) bonus = 7th number drawn

smallest match no (B) number 3

largest match with bonus 5

smallest match with bonus 3

tickets or chances per draw 1

possible combos of 6/49 numbers = 13983816

MATCHES ODDS WINNING COMBOS

6/6+0 1 : 13983816 1

5/6+B 1 : 2330636 6

5/6+0 1 : 55491 252

4/6+B 1 : 22197 630

4/6+0 1 : 1083 12915

3/6+B 1 : 812... [ More ]

Reply #1

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:22:26 GMT

developer

try this link

http://www.durangobill.com/PowerballOdds.html

Combinations and Statistics Help

Developer — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:51:25 GMT

Hi, I am a software developer , many of you have proberbly used or herd of my software at some point, I am currently writing a true lottery odds calculator as an addition to the software..

I need some help, I spent over 7 hours yesterday on this and just can't seem to work out whats going wrong.

When I click on 6 / 49 I get the following output from the software

Match 6 of 6 from 49 : = 13,983,816.0000000000 to 1

Match 5 of 6 from 49 : = 54,200.8372093024 to 1

Match 4 of 6 from 49... [ More ]