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• Rocko2x

  

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  Does anyone know what pairs will give you the most amount of coverage in pick 3? I've found that these 10 pairs will cover 47.4% of total combinations:

  02 06 09 14 18 26 27 34 38 57

  Changing the pair 18 to 15 will also give 47.4% coverage so I imagine there are other pair sets that do same but is it possible to reach 49.0% with just 10 pairs or maybe even 9 pairs or less? I know 50% is impossible as we can not include the pairs for triples.
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  Please post in the appropriate forum ... thank you.
• Raven62

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Rocko2x on Mar 1, 2017

  Does anyone know what pairs will give you the most amount of coverage in pick 3? I've found that these 10 pairs will cover 47.4% of total combinations:

  02 06 09 14 18 26 27 34 38 57

  Changing the pair 18 to 15 will also give 47.4% coverage so I imagine there are other pair sets that do same but is it possible to reach 49.0% with just 10 pairs or maybe even 9 pairs or less? I know 50% is impossible as we can not include the pairs for triples.

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• Rocko2x

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by Raven62 on Mar 9, 2017

  How did you arrive at this conclusion?

  I deflated all 720 singles and all 270 doubles, keeping only those pairs. Returned 89 box combinations (69 singles - 20 doubles) and 474 straight combinations.