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1 in 400 million?
Many people say the big jackpot games Powerball and Mega Millions are due for a matrix change. The last time the operators of these games changed the matrices, the jackpot odds went up to their current state of about 1 in 300 million for each game (give or take some millions). Idea 1: What if the group that runs either lottery wanted to make a new matrix resulting in 1 in 400 million jackpot odds. What matrices would give those odds? I ran a script to generate some possibilities getting a
Dec 9, 2022, 11:22 am - cottoneyedjoe - Mathematics Forum

Not sure where to put this question (D3)...Reply
Fascinating, Garyo! And if you remove the doubles, you get a pool of 45, of which 10 now are repeats. (I'm taking them out, because the straights vs. box odds for doubles is different than singles.) What percentage is 10 of 45?... Appx. 22%, very close to 1/6th... which is what we'd expect to shake out when it comes to boxes vs. straights (6 boxes, of which 1 would be a straight match). This fits my theory, then, that the numbers are (a) chosen first as to positioning, above/below/beside, and th
Aug 31, 2014, 6:41 pm - PeerGynt - Mathematics Forum

Please help me gain a better understanding of percentiles.
I have a MM/PB system that creates a pool (array) of numbers that favors cold numbers. If a number was drawn last, it gets one ball entered into the array, two draws back gets two balls , etc. For the MM, the number 9 came up on Mar 11, so it gets one. The number 11 came up on Mar 7, so it gets two. It only gets a number based on the last time drawn, so the number 11 that came up on Feb 7 does not count. Additionally, most drawn numbers, such as 23 and 35 which have come up 7 times, those common
Mar 13, 2014, 7:02 pm - GoogilyMoogily - Mathematics Forum

Request statistical filtering opinion re Pick 3 number pool
Given the entire lottery draw history going back several years for a daily Pick 3, and given 360 numbers in a pool, is there any way to eliminate some of those numbers in the pool with a 98% or more certainty that those numbers so eliminated will NOT show up the very next day?
Mar 28, 2011, 6:50 am - SozzledBoot - Mathematics Forum

Neural Net Lottery PickerReply
Use Pool.
May 5, 2021, 7:17 am - MillionsWanted - Mathematics Forum

Possible lotto formulaReply
why pick numbers outside the pool of numbers being played?
Dec 1, 2016, 10:15 am - calicogirl - Mathematics Forum

factoring in "inverse" results in sets?
I don't have any post-high school advanced math training/education, and I'm struggling to accurately describe the problem, so I'm hoping someone here has some ideas, can point me in the right direction, or at least help me quantify the problem a bit more :)The problem in a nutshell I've got is: is there a general mathematical way to account for a pool of X numbers taken from a sorted set of more than X numbers, where sometimes the X numbers are taken from the start of the set, but sometimes from
Mar 25, 2005, 1:48 pm - mabman - Mathematics Forum

How can I validate my system is getting closer to picking better numbers?
MegaMillions... Numbers appearing in ( ) represent the ball number in terms of the conversation, except the spreadsheet formula. I'm going into this knowing that it's impossible to pick random numbers. Be that as it may, still having fun trying to develop a program to create a pool of numbers to draw from. I prefer cold numbers over hot numbers. I am thinking along the lines of a coin toss in that the same side of coin becomes increasingly less possible to get consecutively over time. If
Jun 2, 2015, 12:42 pm - GoogilyMoogily - Mathematics Forum

(New member) Have any of you broken down a keno game?Reply
I've looked looked at it, but I use it as a limiter instead of a method to generate numbers to play... Over\under 40... Every (99.62%) draw sequence will have between 5-15 over\under 40. As odd\evens also have 40 number pools, the curves(chances) are the same. Pool of 40 Chance 0 0.00% 1 0.00% 2 0.00% 3 0.02% 4 0.16% 5 0.75% 6 2.52% 7 6.35% 8 12.15% 9 17.88% 10 20.32% 11 17.88% 12 12.15% 13 6.35% 14 2.52% 1
May 21, 2017, 4:55 pm - Datapile - Mathematics Forum

I have a math questionReply
your first pick 4 question (googled 38 choose 4 gave 73,815) is correct for when 4 balls are coming from the same pool. But your second question is unclear. Is each ball coming from a separate pool? If each ball is coming from a separate pool then you just multiple the size of pools together (11*19*23*19) there's no need to divided by 4/3/2/1. If they're coming from the same pool..then i don't see how the first ball can be from a different range than the second ball and so on.
Dec 26, 2015, 6:45 pm - tdottlotto - Mathematics Forum