Actually, I didn't know it!
Quite while ago, there was a guy here at LP that either had software that he bought that told him that, or he wrote a program himself. He gave me some other interesting numbers that go along with it. And here they are:
Odd/Even #Combo's
0/5 11,628
1/4 77,520
2/3 184,110
3/2 194,940
4/1 92,055
5/0 15,504
575,757 Ttl # of combo's
That's why it makes sense to play 3 odd/2 even or 3 even/2 odd. That's a total of 379,050 combo's between them, which is almost 66% of all possible combo's. It's also why two thirds of all drawings have had 3/2 or 2/3.
I've been thinking about buying Lotto Pro software. It's probably the most powerful/flexible lottery software on the market. For instance, I know that there have been five times in the entire history of T5 where all five numbers drawn were from the same number group. The last time it happened was on July 18th 2013 when 1 5 7 8 9 was drawn. Lotto Pro has search features that can tell me what the other four sets of numbers were, and when they were drawn. Gail Howard's Advantage Plus software cant do that, nor can The LP's search engine. Well, yes they can do it, but it would require hours and hours of manual typing by me, whereas I could type a few numbers into Lotto Pro, and in less than a minute Lotto pro would return to me the info I'm looking for. Whether or not knowing such trivial info would be of any help to me to win a major prize is debatable! If I had to guess, I'd say it probably wont be.
The reason why I want to know weird/trivial things like the above is rooted in my career at IBM. I worked in IBM's biggest data processing centers for my entire 30+ year career with IBM. During that time, I regularly used DB2 database search software that was incredibly powerful, but it was also very "user friendly". (it was easy to use) Not only that, if my QMF search software couldn't do what I wanted it to do, there was always a programmer available that would write a customized query for me which told me what I wanted to know. BTW QMF stands for "Query Management Facility", and it's a software tool used to search massive DB2 databases running on IBM MVS maniframes. (Dont ask me what MVS is, you really don't wanna know!)
See what ya did? Ya got me blabbering on and on about my old Systems Analyst days at IBM. If ya ever wanna know what all those idiot software acronyms mean, I'm your guy. VM, MVS, SAP, DB2, QMF, IMS, AS400, SYS370, OS400, OS2, HTML, AIX, TCP/IP... I got 'em all! And they all SUCK! G5