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Mar 21 2006 08:42pm

Quote (IcEmAnIaC @ Tue, Mar 21 2006, 06:38pm)

njaguar your formula is right but - The odds of winning with one ticket purchased are 1 in 42,840 (Formula is 36*35*34 - Go ask a mathematician are wrong after my calculations

i can show you the real number of 36

(my eng is not 2 good so hope you understand )

let me explain this whit a norwigian lottery.. you must tip 7 right numbers of 34 numbers to win first place ( if you pick this numbers 2-12-6-15-25-34-28 and then the winner numbers comes

2-6-12-15-25-28-34 you dont need to have them in a line , if 1 of the winner number are 12 you got 12 on your raffle/cupong you have a right number ) here the chance of this lottery

34*33*32*31*30*29*29 /7/6/5/4/3/2/1 = 1 of 5379616

in this raffle you must have the right line to win here is the right calculations 2 show it

calculations 36*35*34/3/2/1 = 7140 * (36*36*36 =46656 numbers of lines you can have on this raffle) = 1 of 333,123,840 THAT WILL SAY THIS IS THE POT WHEN THIS POT GOES OUT ^^ =1665619200 fg

( i am 99% sure of this calculations are right )

if hes right i think the code should be re written.

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Mar 21 2006 08:49pm

icemaniac, what do you mean by 36*36*36 is the number of lines? and im pretty sure your calcualtions are wrong, but ill wait until I fully understand what your saying.

This post was edited by Meeker on Mar 21 2006 08:52pm

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Mar 21 2006 08:53pm

Quote (Meeker @ Wed, Mar 22 2006, 02:49am)

icemaniac, what do you mean by 36*36*36 is the number of lines, and im
pretty sure your calcualtions are wrong, but ill wait until I fully
understand what your saying.

as
njag sayd The order of your numbers matters. If you pick 1 2 3, and the
server picks 3 2 1, that is not a match. it is 36 number in all this
right then you have to 36*36*36 of combinations (so i think its right
but maybe i can have wrong )

y your right it must be 36*35*34 but ofc the numbers get 2 high

This post was edited by IcEmAnIaC on Mar 21 2006 08:57pm

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Mar 21 2006 08:54pm

quick question, i tried it out and realised i couldnt preview what i've bought once that hour's lottery is over?

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Mar 21 2006 08:55pm

Quote (IcEmAnIaC @ Tue, Mar 21 2006, 09:53pm)

Quote (Meeker @ Wed, Mar 22 2006, 02:49am)

icemaniac, what do you mean by 36*36*36 is the number of lines, and im
pretty sure your calcualtions are wrong, but ill wait until I fully
understand what your saying.

you are wrong in this case, as stated before there are 36*35*34 (since you cannot repeat a number) possibilities. I dont know why you would fine the odds of unordered and then times them by the total possibilities, you cant have worse odds than 1/(total possibilites) which you got.

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Mar 21 2006 08:57pm

IcEmAnIaC: Your math is wrong. Way wrong.

Also, you can't pick the same # twice.

http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/fred/Lotto/

Check that out. In order to math all 6 numbers (in order) from 1 to 49, the odds are 1:13,983,816

Now explain how mine is somehow higher.

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Mar 21 2006 09:05pm

Dont have time to read everything -

Suggestion if no one has mentioned it - Buy X amount of Random tickets at once. Takes a while to buy more than 1, especially with a high site load.

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Mar 21 2006 09:07pm

dont u think its a lil too hard to win paul ?

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Mar 21 2006 09:12pm

Quote (Jeff.ZycLo @ Tue, Mar 21 2006, 10:07pm)

dont u think its a lil too hard to win paul ?

current odds are 1/21924 and will keep going down and stop at 1/13800...

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#230

Mar 21 2006 09:14pm

Stop bitching.
If you don't like it don't use it, there are some of us here that DO like it and do use it and realize that there is a small chance of winning.

Hell, I wouldn't be suprised if he ripped it down to avoid future bitching.

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