You may improve your coding, but the coded won't improve your winnings.

Probabilities are odd, because you're dealing with infinite sequences, and our brains are wired to deal with shorter-term problems ( like our next meal, sex tonight, and the growling noise from the closet ).

Probability says that if you flip a fair coin often enough, and it never balances on the edge, sooner or later you'll have a long string of heads ( or tails ). Once you've had a dozen heads, some people think tails is more likely, because it has to get back to 50-50. That's the trick about infinite sequences. Sooner or later it will get back to balance, but it can take forever to get there. In the meantime, the odds are still 50% heads, 50% tails. Of course, there IS the possibility that a dozen heads indicates an unfair coin.

If you're dealing with one of those lotteries that uses ping-pong balls, there's always the possibility of some accidental inconsistency that makes some numbers fractionally more likely than others. Otherwise, the fact that a number has appeared frequently makes it neither more likely nore less likely to appear in the next draw.

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In reply to Re: Lottery Numbers by TomDLux
in thread Lottery Numbers by OverlordQ

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