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Quote: Originally posted by KevinJoseph on Dec 17, 2021
Gary perhaps I have gotten it wrong, but on page 84 in the Advantage Gold manual it states the following:
"The easiest and most useful gap calculation is the gap total and it is simply the largest number less the smallest number less the number of gaps between them. In the PA640 game with the bonus excluded there are 6 numbers with 5 gaps. The largest gap would be 40 - 1 - 5 gaps = 34.
Like most statistics in lottery, what happens most is what has the most ways of happening, and what happens least is what has the fewest ways of happening. In the PA 6/40 game, there are 3,838,380 combinations of 40 numbers taken 6 at a time (i.e. without the bonus number). The largest possible gap total is achieved when a combination contains both 01 and 40 and the possible ways that can happen comprise a full wheel with two power numbers which has a total of 73,815 combinations and is just 1.92% of the possible combinations. In the 621 games of the PA 6/40 game,Menu Option L3shows it happened only 8 times -- certainly not something you would want to bet on. The only way to get a gap total of zero is to have a group of strictly consecutive numbers. In the PA 6/40 game, there are only 35 ways this can happen so it should be an extremely rare event and indeed never happened in the 621 games of the PA 6/40 lotto. Again you would not want to waste money on such combinations."
If the maximum gap total in a 6/40 game is 40 - 1 - 5 gaps = 34 then I assumed a 4/28 would be calculated as 28 - 1 - 3 gaps = 24 but perhaps I've got that wrong?
I've just checked chart L3 in the Advantage Gold software for my 4/28 game and it lists gap totals for 0-24 so I thought this confirmed my calculation but perhaps not? I also did the same test with a 4/30 game and got a maximum gap total of 26 (i.e 30-1-3=26) so perhaps Advantage Gold calculates differently than yourself Gary?
Reading the manual she's using consecutive numbers as being a 0 gap. So by her calculations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 would be (6 - 1) - 5 = 0.
In that case, nothing I've said would apply as apparently she's basing her Gap on any possible combination as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, or 5, 4, 6, 3, 1, 2.
I don't understand why since you'll never see anything but 1,2,3,4,5,6 on a ticket. But that's her method. Calculating gap by draw order is going to be..........well, good luck with working with all those positive and negative numbers!
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Quote: Originally posted by garyo1954 on Dec 17, 2021
Reading the manual she's using consecutive numbers as being a 0 gap. So by her calculations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 would be (6 - 1) - 5 = 0.
In that case, nothing I've said would apply as apparently she's basing her Gap on any possible combination as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, or 5, 4, 6, 3, 1, 2.
I don't understand why since you'll never see anything but 1,2,3,4,5,6 on a ticket. But that's her method. Calculating gap by draw order is going to be..........well, good luck with working with all those positive and negative numbers!
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Quote: Originally posted by Speler on Dec 17, 2021
Tell us about your fiasco!
It was just a normal bad day after dialysis.
Not nearly as bad a the mistake I made with GH gaps. Still trying ti find the reason for the subtraction of the spaces. As long as its consistent I can't see the difference it would make.
But I'd like a logical reason for doing it.
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It doesn't change any of the totals just moves them up three rows.....first two rows show the totals when we use (N4-N1). The second two reflect her method (N4-N1) - 3 spaces. (The second set would include a 0 which would equal 25.)
GAPS
Hit
GAPS
Hit
1 =
0
1 =
72
2 =
0
2 =
138
3 =
25
3 =
220
4 =
72
4 =
315
5 =
138
5 =
420
6 =
220
6 =
532
7 =
315
7 =
648
8 =
420
8 =
765
9 =
532
9 =
880
10 =
648
10 =
990
11 =
765
11 =
1092
12 =
880
12 =
1183
13 =
990
13 =
1260
14 =
1092
14 =
1320
15 =
1183
15 =
1360
16 =
1260
16 =
1377
17 =
1320
17 =
1368
18 =
1360
18 =
1330
19 =
1377
19 =
1260
20 =
1368
20 =
1155
21 =
1330
21 =
1012
22 =
1260
22 =
828
23 =
1155
23 =
600
24 =
1012
24 =
325
25 =
828
25 =
0
26 =
600
26 =
0
27 =
325
27 =
0
28 =
0
28 =
0
29 =
0
29 =
0
30 =
0
30 =
0
31 =
0
31 =
0
32 =
0
32 =
0
33 =
0
33 =
0
34 =
0
34 =
0
35 =
0
35 =
0
In either table you need combinations from 990 to 1012, (total 14707, 71.8%) to play the 70% minimum. The only difference is the way its calculated.
Your choice.
G
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