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Thoth, What about Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, South Carolina, Texas, the Tri-State, Virginia, D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin? What source are you using? Check out the Daily Numbers Games page from the Results drop-down menu.
Nov 17, 2006, 7:58 pm - ayenowitall - Mathematics Forum

Indiana, RNGs & Allegations: Time to TestReply
I absolutely agree that there could be a programming bug. And, a bug is unlikely to be discovered without a huge number of samples. DIEHARD (a program for testing RNG algorithms) generally requires a minimum of 3 million data points to make a decision about the randomness of an algorithm. Basic mathematical tests like chi-squared could show a tendency towards non-randomness with perhaps 25,000. It would not be a proof, but if there is a problem in the sample, then further investigation wou
Jun 17, 2005, 10:34 pm - MathWizard - Mathematics Forum

Indiana, RNGs & Allegations: Time to TestReply
To prove this one way or the other mathematically would require tens of thousands of draw results and that would only work if the draw corruption was extremely blatant.Logically, however, the facts that triples result in large payouts, and that triples are appearing at an expected frequency, tends to discredit the concept that there is an algorithmic procedure manipulating the draw results. Such a program, were it to be used, would have to be intelligent enough to know when high payout results
Jun 17, 2005, 10:03 pm - MathWizard - Mathematics Forum

Indiana, RNGs & Allegations: Time to TestReply
four4me,I think I understand the allegations, but my thinking was that Indiana's draw numbers wouldn't stand up to testing for randomness if they were selectively avoiding the numbers which would cost them most to pay off. Maybe my basic premise was incorrect. As RJOh pointed out in his response, the accepted tests for randomness cannot so easily be applied to draw results. Perhaps its easier to test RNG systems than it is to test a given series of numbers that they might produce. Frankly, the w
Apr 19, 2005, 4:37 am - ayenowitall - Mathematics Forum

Benford’s Law and The Lottery!Reply
Thoth, Thanks for the great analysis on Benford's Law (BL)! I believe that skips are the key to solving lottery games, putting yourself in the right spot at the right time with the right numbers. Great work on the Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Indiana and Florida graphs. That's amazing how closely they parallel BL. But, I think what's more interesting is how closely they parallel each other. Skips that start with a 1 hover around 33-34% while BL states they should be closer to 30%. All
Jan 31, 2007, 1:45 pm - JAG331 - Mathematics Forum

Standard deviation of lotto setsReply
Quote: Originally posted by Hyperdimension on December 26, 2004Hi,The right person to answer your question is Mr. Ion Saliu,I find an interesting article about binomial distribution, with the next example:Poisson DistributionIn extreme cases, very small p so that the standard deviation is not much less than the mean, the Gaussian Distribution is not appropriate, but a different approximation is: the Poisson Distribution. Going back to the Binomial Distribution (which is still exact), we only nee
Dec 26, 2004, 9:39 pm - Bertil - Mathematics Forum

Standard deviation of lotto setsReply
Hi,The right person to answer your question is Mr. Ion Saliu,I find an interesting article about binomial distribution, with the next example:Poisson DistributionIn extreme cases, very small p so that the standard deviation is not much less than the mean, the Gaussian Distribution is not appropriate, but a different approximation is: the Poisson Distribution. Going back to the Binomial Distribution (which is still exact), we only need to worry about values of n much smaller than N.In the Indiana
Dec 26, 2004, 4:41 pm - Hyperdimension - Mathematics Forum

Algorithms for number selection?Reply
You don't have to use a computer to come up with variables or use them, it just that using a computer might make the process faster. Besides if you come up with something that shows promise, the potential rewards could be an incentive to learn what ever more you think you need to know to use a computer to do the work. I'm experimenting with ways to come up with variables that are reliable 75% of the time using the local game (6/49) but the targeted number groups are too large to get a winner
May 13, 2012, 3:52 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

How Can I Win Lottery?Reply
Compression for the last and new USA draws ----------------------------Old --------- = -----New Arizona; 01 03 22 24 39 44 = 03 19 23 24 29 35 California; 16 23 35 40 41 12 = 03 13 18 23 37 25 Colorado; 09 10 22 33 35 39 = 02 14 15 29 33 39 Connecticut Lotto = 01 13 31 35 37 42 Florida; 04 23 29 38 45 52 = 03 15 19 24 37 51 Illinois; 05 14 30 32 34 49 = 02 09 12 17 31 42 Indiana; 05 08 13 19 30 41 = 04 07 09 24 37 44 Kansas; 03 13 16 20 27 21 = 04 16 20 26 29
Jun 26, 2009, 12:51 pm - Moses - Mathematics Forum

Excel formulas for Pick 3 & 4 help needed
Hello All,I have a formula =SUM(ISNUMBER(FIND( 520 ,B3:AE21))*1) that I use in excel. It's able to take a and find one # for either pick 3 or 4 across all parts of a excel sheet. I have been doing this formula for all combinations to see what is coming out the most. This is good for straights I figure or even boxes to narrow things down.My question I have is 1. Does any one know how to expand this formula to be able to search all combinations at once? I know there are like 24 combo's just for a
Nov 24, 2005, 2:00 am - powerplayer - Mathematics Forum