Need help with a algorithm

Reply #11

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:31:14 GMT

Solved, Since the sum of the days from one draw to the next will equal 7 in a weekly cycle all I had to

do was add a End IF statement when the sum equaled 7. The value that brings the sum to 7 will be the

number of days to the next drawing. It did not take a algorithm but I thought others might find this info

useful as it should work with any game day drawing format.

RL

Reply #10

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:43:43 GMT

RJ

I have something similar that I used in the past. My new databases don't include the day of the week

but that's not a real problem as my Julian/Gregorian sub calculates them. I spent quite a bit of time on

the sub for the purpose of speeding up the live update option as my new program includes both daily

and number games. I think I have nine games loaded and the live updater takes several seconds to

update all 9 games. There are several options I could use but want to make it a... [ More ]

Reply #9

lottolot — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:54:10 GMT

Reply #8

RJOh — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:59:15 GMT

I used the following lines in a BASIC program to convert DATE$ to a day, you should be able to covert any future DATE$ into a day also with a few modifications.

1 DIM DAY$(6), MONTH$(12)

2 DATA SATURDAY , SUNDAY , MONDAY , TUESDAY , WEDNESDAY , THURSDAY , FRIDAY , JANUARY , FEBRUARY , MARCH , APRIL , MAY , JUNE , JULY , AUGUST , SEPTEMBER , OCTOBER , NOVEMBER , DECEMBER

3 FOR X = 0 TO 6: READ DAY$(X): NEXT X

4 FOR X = 1 TO 12: READ MONTH$(X): NEXT X

5 MO = VAL(LEFT$(DATE$, 2)): DA... [ More ]

Reply #7

Lildarryl — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:36:05 GMT

Add Dr. Miracle to title. It'll get a lot of views. And comments.

Reply #6

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:22:58 GMT

If I reduce the NBD$ string to just show the different values then the code below will catch most games.

julian#=julian#+val(right$(NBD$,1))

This may work for them all, I have to think about it some more.

RL

Reply #5

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:13:40 GMT

I have a method if using days but in my newest program I cut the day of the week out of the database entries.

I do have a program that can calculate the day of the week from the Julian date, I guess that would solve my

problem but would like to use the new method.

RL

Reply #4

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:11:05 GMT

Raven

That works for games with two draws a week but I need something that will catch everything.

RL

Reply #3

Raven62 — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:08:53 GMT

Check the Date for the Day of the Week. If the Drawing are Mon Thu: If it's Mon add 3 to the Date, If it's Thu add 4 to the Date.

Reply #2

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:00:01 GMT

Last time I looked LP does not have a programming board, sure there are plenty of programming sites

but asking for help with something lottery related won't get a reply unless it's full of negative remarks.

There are several here that have the skills and like working on these sort of problems. What I ask here

falls well within the confines of the math forum. May take a week or so for someone interested to take

a stab at it but I have plenty of time. I write algorithms for this kind o... [ More ]

Reply #1

Wisconsin3054 — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 14:28:36 GMT

Maybe try a computer programming thread

Need help with a algorithm

RL-RANDOMLOGIC — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:44:41 GMT

I am working on a tool to calculate the date for the next drawing. I start with converting the last

7 games from Georgian to Julian format. Next I subtract the second form the first then the third

from the second etc.. giving me the number of days between games. These values are stored in

the string NBD$. This works well enough for most games but lets say that a game draws 5 days a

week MTWTF and skips Sat and Sun. This would create a string something like 1111311 where

when the... [ More ]