Hi Rob Erhardt, I remember you mention sometime ago a Lotto Wheel analyzer that was developed by Robert Serotic and Dr. Ronald Hoard of Livermore Labs. Is there any link to this analyzer? I just wondering if there is any other report that might be useful about wheels. I just wanted to have a look at this tool too.
Grandmaster, besides the personal delight and feel of breaking a WR wheel, this is not a fight against each other. Most people do this as a hobby, if not all, including me. However, what distinguish me from others is that I run a lottery business. Personally I do not have any problem to cooperate with someone on wheel development but as you know, part of my efforts is to support my product too. I do work on wheels for two reasons: I enjoy it and anything I design (like the new world records) will be included in the program, because I assume this is what my customers would really want: aftersales support & improvements. Thus, I think nobody would be interested to cooperate with me in this field for this reason. And just tell me, hypothetically speaking, if I cooperate with someone and we do improve wheels, should I include them in the databases?
What we could cooperate on is to discuss about theories of covering designs and code implementation. Then we could develop a tool together, combining any ideas we might come up with, and any record would be registered to this tool. But still, the basic problem remains of the wheels inclusion in the databases. What do you think?