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Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
So does that mean that the state lotteries spend a lot of time and money to make sure the games are independent from one another, or they spend a lot of time and money just to make sure? By spending that extra time, the lotteries are doing whatever they can to insure a fair drawing where every possibility has an equal chance of being the outcome. Simply put, one or more of the three digits drawn in the last drawing have the same equal chance of being drawn in the next drawing as any of the
Jul 23, 2013, 2:30 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

A Pick6 drawing can be convert it into a Pick12 drawing...
take the 3 numbers forward and add them to those same 3 numbers backwards: They should be 12 numbers in total...
Mar 2, 2011, 12:29 am - pumpi76 - Mathematics Forum

I need someone to calculate the odds of this happeningReply
Suppose you won tonight? I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't think your odds of winning again tomorrow night are 1 in 1 million, so (as I clearly noted) it depends on whether we're talking about somebody who hasn't won or somebody who has already won. If you've already won and you buy a single ticket for the next drawing the chances that you will become one of the people who won twice in a row are 1 in 1000. You may think the odds of that first win are 1 in 1000, but that's just as incorrect as th
Jul 21, 2009, 3:23 am - KY Floyd - Mathematics Forum

Math odds..no digit return. How often ?Reply
There are 1000 possible combinations of 3's. If you remove 3 numbers then there 343 possible combinations of 3's, so there would be 343/1000 odds that a combination coming up today would not have one of the numbers in the previous drawing if the previous drawing had 3 different numbers.However if the last number was a double then there would 512 combinations of 3's that wouldn't contain those two numbers, so there would 512/1000 odds that a combination coming up today would not have one of the t
Oct 3, 2005, 12:27 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Anyone Here Have Programming Skills?Reply
how many times has it happened? My guess is that it isn't many! The chances that NY will draw the same set of numbers that have won previously is exactly the same as the chance of another state drawing those numbers, for equal numbers of drawings. If NY has drawn 7,762 unique combinations there's a 7,762 in 575,757 chance of drawing one of those previous combinations in the next drawing, and the same is true of the next drawing in any other state that has a 5/39 game. If the next drawing do
May 23, 2018, 3:07 am - KY Floyd - Mathematics Forum

The math of school lotteriesReply
Man I'm glad I don't have young kids anymore. Remember how simple it was in the old days when you either sent your kids to the closest neighborhood public school or the Catholic school? I ran simulations of your weighted drawing and the average number of faculty kids was about 8.89. I didnt expext it to be more than 1 kid fewer, so that is interesting. The average must be lower because the single drawing set up has the possibility of no faculty kids being selected. If you're faculty, you
Nov 20, 2022, 10:52 am - db101 - Mathematics Forum

Can math and logic improve chances of winning a jackpot?Reply
I am optimizing my expected return and purchasing 6,650,908 quick picks for tomorrow's drawing.
Sep 1, 2013, 7:02 pm - LottoMetro - Mathematics Forum

649 formulaReply
I see 31 did come up in tonight's OCL drawing so all 49 numbers have hit in the last 29 drawings for Saturday's drawing.
Jun 12, 2013, 8:25 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Are you good at Algebra?Reply
dr san wrote: ``04 = (A) (greater than) space between the draws. 05 = (B) less than) space between the draws`` I am having trouble understanding what you want. But if it has something to do with determining the spacing between drawing the same number (or set of numbers), perhaps the following will be helpful. Consider the mega number of the Mega Millions lottery. There are 46 mega numbers. The probability of the same mega number appearing k drawings later (and not before) is given by t
Aug 23, 2012, 8:13 am - mathhead - Mathematics Forum

Algorithms for number selection?Reply
I've been using a similar system to pick numbers for MM the last few weeks only I search all the drawings back to 06/24/l2 when the present matrix started and look at the numbers in the last drawing and what followed them every time they hit in past drawings in the same positions. For example in the last drawing the lowest number was 3 and it has been the lowest number 54 of the 61 times it hit in the past 713 drawings. Thirty seven of those time when the previous number was higher, the lowes
Apr 27, 2012, 3:07 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum