Quote: Originally posted by LANTERN on Aug 21, 2011
What is random? Is it that which can't be predicted?
What is prediction? Saying what will happen at a given time or section of time sometime in the future and being right about it?
Is what will happen also saying that which will not happen at a given future time and would that also be taken as being a prediction of some kind?
It would of course be easier to guess or say what will not happen than to say that which will happen.
Can the future be predicted? If a person says that it will not rain tomorrow at a given particular place there is a much higher chance that that person will be right than if that person says that it will rain, of course it depends a lot on the particular place where this is predicted at.
On the sixties and on the seventies if a person said that a volkswagen beettle would soon come along down the street there would be a good chance that the person would be right, but nowdays the chance of that might be very low.
Here are some Midday Pa draws:
Sun, Aug 21, 2011 7-2-7
Sat, Aug 20, 2011 6-5-0
Fri, Aug 19, 2011 2-8-1
Thu, Aug 18, 2011 1-4-2
Wed, Aug 17, 2011 5-2-1
Tue, Aug 16, 2011 4-2-8
Mon, Aug 15, 2011 2-4-0
Mon, Aug 15, 2011 8-4-2Double Draw
Sun, Aug 14, 2011 0-4-7
Sat, Aug 13, 2011 3-8-6
The 727 = 16 Sum , 6 Last Digit, 7 Root, 5 Lowest To Highest Width, Mostly High, HLH, Mostly Odd, OEO.
If I said that another 727 would not come out next, I might have a higher chance of being right than if I said that a 727 would come out next.
If I said that a number having 5 or more of these patterns:
16 Sum , 6 Last Digit, 7 Root, 5 Lowest To Highest Width, Mostly High, HLH, Mostly Odd, OEO.
Would not come out next, I might have a better chance of being right than if I said that a number having 5 or more of those patterns will come out next.
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If I said that all of the next 3 midday pick 3 numbers will not be HLH I might have a better chance of being right than if I said that all the next 3 midday numbers will be HLH.
By all of these I am trying to point out that there are limits to the predictability and the unpredictability of things or of what they call random.
Who would be stupid enough to bet that all of the next 3 midday pick 3 numbers will be 000?
Even most people would feel that the chances of that happening would be much lower than the chances of that not happening?
As unpredictable as a person would feel that random is, we know that the happening of some things are just not very likely, so there are more or less limits to the unpredictability of random events.
While the Moon can come down crashing on Earth at any time, we know that it is very unlikely that it will happen sometime tomorrow, very much unlikely yes, but not impossible.
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But when a person tries to "predict" too many factors of that which might not happen, the chances of failure compounds, the possible chances of failure of the factors might not just add-up, but maybe multiply, otherwise there might be a lot of people winning often.
That is why I always had such a hard time making right predictions, even so I did make a few very good predictions time ago, yes I did miss on a lot of predictions also, I remember.