Can we create a simulated time machine?
Assume it is the year AD 87, living during the height of the Roman Empire. Twice a week I write down 2 five number combinations from a pool of 34 numbers. I carry on century after century. Fast forward to 28 July 2007. I have around 200,000 combinations. I place all the actual real past 5 number combinations on the top of this huge file. I run a statistical report on these Past draws and find that the median is 200,000. I also notice that for the last 3 draws the winning combinations have been found below this median. It is reasonable to suppose that in the next draw it will rebalance and the winning combination will not appear in the previous 200,000 draws. Assume I take 50 Quick Picks(another name for Quick Loss). If any of those Quick Picks have appeared in the previous 200,000 draws, then they have zero chance of hitting in the very next draw. If you eliminate those combinations that have done this, then at least the remaining Quick Picks are in with a chance(say 1 in 80,000) which is substantially better than 1 in 280,000 which is the normal Quick Pick odds. In effect we have travelled back to AD87 and then returned to 2007. Not as good as the proposed machine mentioned in the previous ariticle but an improvement on what we have know which is nothing.
