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Neural Net Lottery PickerReply
That sounds interesting: I have been doing some research.. and of course and former mathmetician I did notice the Vtrac system if you don't mind crunching a zilion numbers.. does work.. and have an unlimited budget.. :) last night .. after coming up with PB numbers using an old system been around forever.. adding previous number to current number and so forth, I realized that the Vtrac system is actually a math problem .. which could be turned into a Calculus problem.. since it assigns number gr
Oct 25, 2022, 2:22 pm - Nurdug - Mathematics Forum

Expected Value of Lottery Jackpot, Given You Are A Winner
When you play a lottery and win a pari-mutuel Jackpot, there's always the possibility that one or more other players will also have won, and you'll be sharing (splitting) the prize money. Can you calculate what the Expected Value is of the Jackpot prize, given you are a winner? Certainly! We need to assume something first: every ticket bought is a Quickpick - so any given set of numbers (a single ticket) can be randomly replicated on any other ticket. Suppose there are N such tickets sold (1
Jul 18, 2022, 5:07 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

My Method: A linear congruential generator pickerReply
That's true Allen. Knowing the game and history of the game keeps the player from stepping in a lot of potholes. There was once a guy whose entire system was playing every combination of 30s. Naturally in a 5/35 there are only six sets from 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 to 31, 32, 33, 34, 35. It is the perfect plan (on the opposite end of playing 1,2,3,4,5,6). The only thing that spoils the plan is if a number starting with 30 or 31 doesn't hit. And through the first 6606 draws it hasn't, g
Jul 9, 2019, 10:02 pm - garyo1954 - Mathematics Forum

Mathematics and the LotteryReply
Politically I'm a moderate because every once in a while people from both parties have good ideas. I also understand odds so when I lived in predominately Republican or Democrat districts, I registered to vote with the majority party because the outcomes were settled in the primaries. Currently I'm living in a solid red district. Handicapping this past presidential election was easy just by looking at nothing but the maths. There is no point spread and the incumbent only had to win two or thr
Nov 14, 2012, 10:38 pm - Stack47 - Mathematics Forum

MATH 5/39: Stack47, Garyo1954, RL-RANDOMLOGIC VS Jimmy4164Reply
Are you planning to enter the Yup'ik lottery, Jimmy? Not that it bothers me, but the grand prize with parmutuel betting works out to, oh, 120 Yu'pik base dollars before taxes!!!!! Are you crazy? Now, I failed to respond to the first post because, *ahem* let's just say there is a lack of research done on the Yup'ik. According to the Journal of American Indian Education, Volume 33, Number 3, May 1994, whereas the Yu'pik used a base 20 system, it consists of a subbase 5, i.e. left hand, right ha
Mar 1, 2011, 4:36 pm - garyo1954 - Mathematics Forum

Chi-square
The other day I had the good fortune to hit 5 out of 6 numbers in a local Lotto game. I had to go to the local Lottery office to pick up my winnings (had to sign paper work for taxes) While I was there they were minutes from conducting the midday drawing, I ask if it would be ok for me to watch. They said it would be fine. They proceeded to tell me all the in's and out's of the drawing and the procedures they use to conduct the drawing. The one thing that popped up several times was
Sep 13, 2009, 5:04 pm - Dead_Aim - Mathematics Forum

Can someone help me out with my math?
Like most people I wanted to take the lump sum of any major jackpot win. I started thinking about it the other day, and thought that I was just not thinking things through and thats the last thing I want to do with that huge some of money! So, I was thinking that maybe annuity is better. I know everyone has their opinions on which one is better...but I want to know from a mathmatical point of view. (Don't worry...I understand too, that no one can give me better advice than a financial adviso
Aug 8, 2007, 10:00 pm - whitmansm2 - Mathematics Forum

"Post-Game Review" - $1.58B MM Jackpot This Week
A single winner in Florida hit the $1.58B Mega Millions this week. The cash value (I saw on TV anyway) was about $783M. This begs the question: playing a regular $2 ticket, did a player have a positive return expectation (expected value of return $2 bet)? Answers: 1. Before income tax - yes, roughly $0.11 gain per $ bet (about +11% return) 2. After income tax - no, roughly $0.28 loss per $ bet if you assume a 35% tax rate on winnings. (about -28% return) First, I looked up the nu
Aug 12, 2023, 12:53 pm - Orange71 - Mathematics Forum

Mega Millions Just The JackpotReply
Answered by Google. Bard The expected value of a lottery ticket is the average of the possible prizes, weighted by their probability. For a regular Mega Millions ticket, the expected value is about $0.63. This means that, on average, for every $2 you spend on a ticket, you will expect to win about $0.63. The expected value of a JTJ ticket is about $1.26. This means that, on average, for every $3 you spend on a ticket, you will expect to win about $1.26. So, the JTJ ticket offers a
Aug 3, 2023, 6:59 am - mrtckw - Mathematics Forum

Combinatorics & Modus TollensReply
Holy Moly. Has it been one month already? I have totally lost track of time. If you cant get to the store then what can you do? Quit? I seem to have lost my desire to win the lottery too. It used to be a raging inferno but now its a smoldering ember. Anyway, I was able to have some money delivered to me, so I am back in the game momentarily. (I was hoping to get some more Christmas cash, but all I got was blue tooth speakers. Hey didn't you get me a blue tooth speaker last Christmas
Dec 26, 2020, 2:47 am - JeetKuneDoLotto - Mathematics Forum