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Mathematics and the LotteryReply
With retailers getting 5% of sales for selling and cashing in tickets, vendors probably getting 5% for supplying terminals and software and a staff of managers, security and maintenance people getting 10%, players would have to be giving up cashing in 40% of their prize money. Do you really feel that many winning tickets go unclaimed?
Sep 7, 2013, 10:20 pm - RJOh - Mathematics Forum

Standard deviation testReply
The question still remains even to this day........ Is there a standardized test or safeguards ....for these state run games and their computer draws? The standardized test for randomness in lottery drawings is chi-square hypothesis testing. You can also use ANOVA tests with your own random number simulations to determine if the difference in population variance is significant. Among other techniques both of these are used by lottery auditors and vendors. It's a little beyond the scop
Jul 2, 2014, 2:36 am - LottoMetro - Mathematics Forum

21 CombinationsReply
...There certainly is that off-chance that the draw results can be manipulated or adjusted to some degree in a true conspiracy fashion if the draws are not televised live in real time. Whether a half an hour of deadline time is enough time to accomplish that massive feat is debate-able. ...The ticket-vending deadline is probably required to make sure that all vending machines are offline and disabled before the draw, so that the vendors/public-at-large cannot purchase a winning ticket combo a
Apr 1, 2009, 10:52 am - LottoHackJack - Mathematics Forum

21 CombinationsReply
Hi LottoHackJack It is rather funny that what you are suggesting in relation to my previous post! You said; The ticket-vending deadline is probably required to make sure that all vending machines are offline and disabled before the draw, so that the vendors/public-at-large cannot purchase a winning ticket combo after the draw has already occurred and been made official. ...and therefore all possible measures are considered to reassure that public cannot purchase unauthorised t
Apr 1, 2009, 4:57 pm - Moses - Mathematics Forum