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RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 12 May 2011 21:19:56 GMT

mylot

It depends on what odds your looking for. NY take-5 is a 5-39 game so 29.6% of the numbers equal 11.5.

This would mean you are playing a different game because you can't have 11.5 numbers so for this I will

use 11. There are 462 sets of 5 in 11 numbers and 575757 sets of 5 in 39 so 575757/462=1246.2 so your

odds would be 1 in 1246 if you play all 462 combos. If you are using conditional odds where you think all

5 numbers will come from the pool of 11 then the odds would be 1... [ More ]

how to calculate the odds of this

mylot — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:47:53 GMT

hi all , I am backtesting some systems and I would like to know if someone can give me the mathematical formula to figure out the odds of the following --- Lets say just for example Im playing 29.6 % of all #s and yet none of my #s come out for 17 consecutive drawings. Would the odds be 29.6% divided by 2,divided by 2 ,divided by 2 ,etc... 17 x ?

thanks in advance , J