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Are Lottery Winning Numbers Really Random?

This is a discussion on Are Lottery Winning Numbers Really Random? within the Analytic News Feeds forums, part of the Analytics category; Most analytic people would agree that lottery is a tax on the*innumerate. However, for this statement to be true, we need to assume that winning numbers (and any combination of ...


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Old 24th November 2011, 02:52 PM   #1
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Most analytic people would agree that lottery is a tax on the*innumerate. However, for this statement to be true, we need to assume that winning numbers (and any combination of digits from these numbers) are truly random. If not, of course smart people are going to find and devise algorithms to increase their odds of winning, and/or will try to sell their magic "winning numbers" to idiots.*





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