ShytKicker
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If anything fraud has went up from 25 years ago.
I proved to myself there is no fraud (or very little).
ShytKicker said:>>>I know it is fixed, I am 100% sure it is fixed, there is no DOUBT in my mind lotteries are fixed. Otherwise, they wouldn't have enough money giving out the jackpot to every single person that plays a mega million game<<<
We know how to deal with this ilk ... courier pigeon has been dispatched alreadyW Kaenzig said:Brad, this person is here only to browbeat, shock, disrupt, use convoluted logic, which creates rants, and raves. Ignore!
Powaznie mowie, wytlumacz mi jak past numery maja wogole cos spolnego z tymi numerami co losuja sie teraz. Ty nie rozumiesz, tak samo jak ten drugi, jak nie ma przekrentu, to nie maja stare numery nic spolnego z CURRENT LOTTERY DRAWINGS. Just listen, there are two and ONLY two reasons why certain numbers may appear more than others.
Dear Steve,
Scientists are always looking for patterns in physical data, and
market traders are always looking for patterns in stock prices.
Sometimes our eyes make up patterns in data that's really quite
random. So mathematicians have come up with rules that can tell
objectively whether a pattern is really there, or whether it's just
a chance combination of numbers.
The rules aren't straightforward and simple, because they depend on
the context. If you're serious about this, it will be worth your
while to take a course in first year statistics, or read an elementary
statistics text; there will be lots of examples of real number
patterns and false patterns that look real.
This should be an important concern of yours before you actually put
money down in the lottery based on your ideas: check that the pattern
you are seeing is "statistically significant". That's the term that
means it's really in the data, and not likely to be just a series of
random occurrences.
In the example you give, suppose the first number A can be anything
from 00 to 99. Suppose you see the number 10 come up once, and then
again 13 days later. This might seem a remarkable thing to you, but
it is not "statistically significant" because in any set of 14
numbers, there are 91 different pairs of numbers, so the chances are
91/100 that one of the pairs will be the same. If the number 10 came
up in the same slot a third time within 13 more days, that still
wouldn't be statistically significant; only after the fourth such
occurence would you really start to suspect that it's a pattern you
might be able to bank on.
Statistics has a lot to tell us in situations like this, and, as in
the case I just cited, much of it isn't really in line with our
intuitions. I strongly recommend that you learn enough to understand
statistical significance before you risk any money on a pattern that
you've found in lottery numbers.
Well, I think this is going to be harder than you realize.
There are actually 69,090,840 possible choices.
This is because for the first ball there could be 39 choices; then, because
none can repeat, there are 38 choices for the second, 37 for the third,
etc.
Thus the total choices are found by 39x38x37x36x35 - which = 69,090,840.
Therefore, it is not surprising that no number has been repeated. For instance,
let's say that there have been 156 previous drawings (one per week for three
years). The odds of a number being drawn on the next drawing that has
already been used are 150/69090840. That is really small. Their method
is probably perfectly random: it just seems as if they don't allow repeats
because it hasn't happened yet. Also, even if they didn't allow repeats, after
1746 years there would still be 69,000,000 numbers left to choose from
and that would make hardly any difference to the odds.
I am afraid that there is just no way to make the lottery a better deal.
better deal.
On the next drawing day for the lottery, ALL the tickets are replaced.
Each lottery draw is an event independent of the others. That is to
say, the probability of any combination winning today has absolutely
NO effect on the probability of that or any other combination winning
tomorrow. Each and every draw is totally independent of the others.
The reason your friend believes that he has a better chance of winning
with the same set of numbers is probably due to something called the
"gambler's fallacy." This idea is that the longer the lottery goes
without your friend's "special" set of numbers coming up, the more
likely it is to come up in the future. The same fallacy is believed by
a lot of people about slot machines in gambling casinos. They hunt for
which slot hasn't paid in a while, thinking that that slot is more
likely to pay out. But, as the name says, this is a fallacy; pure
nonsense. A pull of the slot machine's handle, like the lottery draw,
is completely independent of previous pulls. The slot machine has no
memory of what has come before, and neither has the lottery. You might
play a slot machine for 2 weeks without hitting the big jackpot, and
someone else can walk in and hit it in the first 5 minutes of play.
People wrongly attribute that to "it was ready to pay out." In
reality, it's just luck. That's why they call it gambling.![]()