I better give it a try myself.
There can be more than one definition of what can be considered as being Hot and ot Cold.
Never mind wrong spelling of words, so long as you understand what I am trying to say.
By the way, name of filters matter not of course as you know, for example as you pointed out the 10 "ShortSums" can be taken as being just the same as the 10 straight digits on any given pick 3 or pick 4 position as each of the LDR patterns has an equal filtering value in combinations.
There are only 2 things that count:
How many of the given patterns for that particular filter are there?
And
Are each of the given patterns equal or not for that filter? And if not, then, What is the value of each of them in amount of combinations (Pick 3 or whatever)?
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First of all, let us try to deal with with a "Filter" whose patterns have "equal filtering value" to them.
Let us take a filter with 2 values, a and b.
"a" represents 1/2 of the total number of combinations and the same goes for "b".
1 "complete cycle" is 2 draws.
Because on a 2 patterns filter on 2 draws, one of each pattern can come out one time, 1 cycle (2 draws) can't be used, 1 1/2 cycle (3 draws) or longer (more than 3 draws) can be used for making definitions of what can be taken as being Hot and or Cold.
For example:
a
b
a
= a Is Hot and b is Cold
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The same applies to:
a
a
b and also to
b
a
a
And
a
a
a
Still a is Hot and b is cold.
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As you can see here, it is much better if Half of the given patterns are Hot and the other Half is cold, after all both pf these patterns have "equal filtering value"
You only need to know which half of the patterns are Hot as the rest of them will be Cold by default, but this might not always apply with all filters.
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A filter with 3 patterns?
1 2 3
It is possible for the same pattern to repeat or come out a number of times in sequence, only study of the patterns can tell.
1 cycle here = 3 draws.
It is very unlikely that any-one of the 3 patterns would come out in straight sequence more than 6 times.
Only testing can tell for sure, but perhaps 12 draws would be enough in which can be determined which one of the 3 patterns is Hotter or which 2 patterns are Hotter.
But on 3 patterns, it might be best to try to determine Which is:
Red (Hot)
White (Neutral)
Blue (Cold)
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Whichever of the 3 patterns on a given number of draws (always the same number of draws) comes out the most often is Red, comes 2nd most often is White, comes 3rd most often or by default is Blue.
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If 2 pattterns come out the same number of times, the Tie Braker can be that the one which came last of the two patterns is the one that is Hot,
for example:
2
1
1
2
= 2 Is Hottest.
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The other possible way to determine Hottest or Hot ranking is by given each of the past draws used a given value of points, for example:
If 12 past draws are used then:
12
11
10
09
08
07
06
05
04
03
02
01
To the right of the values you have the patterns such as:
12 1
11 3
10 1
09 2
Etc
You add the points for each of the patterns to determine which one is Red, White, Blue.
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If a filter has 4 patterns, 2 patterns would be Hot and 2 patterns Cold. No White used here.
Same rules as above apply for determining what is Hot and what is cold.
How many pasts draws to use?
Only real testing can tell.
4 past draws are 1 cycle, use as many past draws as testing will tell what is best to use.
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A 5 patterns filter:
Either 5 levels of temperature or 3 Levels such as Red, White, Blue,
Red = 2 Patterns
White = 3 Patterns
Blue = 2 patterns.
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Etc up to maybe 10 patterns or more.
A 10 pattern filter = 5 Hot and 5 Blue
A 6 pattern filter = 3 Hot and 3 Blue
8 patterns = 4 Hot and 4 Blue.
The above rules of selection apply.
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For filters that have patterns that are not equally even, special selection rules of temperature would apply, it would be done on a case by case thing.
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Maybe that explained better what Ricky asked for.
Or maybe that is what Ricky was asking for.
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As you can see, I didn't talk about skips, Why complicate things any more than they are needed?
Perhaps I could have talked about skips, but I don't see a need for it yet, maybe if it was really needed for some paticular reason and or filter.
Perhaps what you want are, Hot and Cold Skips for all filter patterns?
I can tell and show how to know which skips are Hot and which are Cold if that is what is needed.
I long thought about these things, but since I am not myself a programmer, I said to myself, "Why Bother With it?"
I am shocked that Ricky posted about it, I thought that I was the only one interested in this kind of thing.
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I could of course give particular examples, but it is better like this and just let you figure it out by yourself unless you ask about 1 or 2 particular examples, then you can figure the rest out by yourself.
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