Powerball Generator!

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(09-13-2024 08:26 PM)lrdheat Wrote:  I would have the same chance of a win if I simply chose 1,2,3,4,5,6 !

Back when I was a teenager, I said this same thing to an uncle of mine in upstate New York, when they had a state lottery and I wanted to buy a ticket. My uncle had been around (horses, poker, other types of gambling), and he said that I was incorrect in my assertion (NOT the words he used). I didn’t believe him. Many years later, I did some research on conditional probabilities (conditional because you are choosing a set of numbers based on what you have already chosen, in order for them to be so close to each other). Turns out he was correct: some sets of lottery numbers are less likely to occur than others.

The lessons: always listen to your elders, because you might learn something. Also, math is interesting.

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HP25, HP55, HP27S, HP18C, HP19C, HP16C, HP67, HP28, HP41, HP75, HP71, HP48C, HP49G, HP30B, HP50G, HP Prime (not necessarily in that order)