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Truly Random Numbers
I've been working to create an Excel Spreadsheet to create lottery numbers drawn in picture form. Basically a grid. I'd speculate that if lottery numbers are random then in a perfect situation would be a number after being drawn would not be drawn again until all other numbers have been drawn. We know this not to be true. What in theory makes the lottery numbers drawn is that we can't consistently predict what the next drawn numbers would be. So far I'm using the Spreadsheet for Michigan's Lotto
Dec 16, 2023, 12:27 pm - SwingTrader1941 - Mathematics Forum

Megamillions number frequency - probability puzzleReply
I usually use VScode, but I have Anaconda installed, so all the pursuant data science packages with Anaconda (e.g. Numpy, Scipy, Pandas, etc.) are available by import. I also have a few packages that are not available with conda install, so I use PIP instead. For this particular problem I did not code a Python app, rather I just used an Excel spreadsheet. Certainly you could write a Python app if you want. Here's the algorithm for calculating the probability for problem (a). I put probl
Dec 11, 2023, 8:20 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum