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Author: Richard CrowleyRichard Crowley Date: Aug 31, 2006 17:01
"Laurence Payne" wrote ...
>> A whole
>>fringe industry has grown up to write software to spot the "patterns"
>>in lottery results, so far with no benefit, all inspired by the notion
>>that such patterns exist. Any set of uncorrelated random outcomes can
>>appear to have some local patterns, but that's as far as it goes.
>
> And they all miss the point that if it DID predict winning numbers it
> would guarantee a minimal payout. Unless only one person bought the
> program.
And the folk who run the lottery use the same software to spot
and eliminate those "patterns" by changing out the balls, etc.
Lotteries are a tax on the mathematically-challenged.
They are a prime example of our governments acting
like parasites on their constituency.
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