Derektenones: It's there now.

~Korea~: No problem. Glad you're keeping me on my toes, in case I start slacking.

I'm not a statistician, but I think the odds greatly increase above one in 36*35*34 if you require the numbers to be in order as well. I think those odds apply to the case where you choose the numbers in any order.

For example: The lottery has a 1 in 42,840 chance of picking the three numbers that I picked. But of those three numbers, there are 6 orders possible, so the odds are really i in 257,040.

I'd say it's a ripoff unless you fix the order requirement.

if the pot gets big enough

some1 smart should work out all the variables and all the possiblities, and buy EVERY ticket

if i was rich in real life, i would do that with the lottery ^.^

as long as in the end i made profit lmao

Do the math, schlag. You're wrong.

36*35*34 = ORDERED odds.

Unordered would be something like 36+35+34+33+32+31+30...

Which is MUCH less.

So, in short, yeah, you're dead wrong. Go join #math on irc.freenode.org and ask them if you don't believe me.

Dude thats awesome ^^

Here's an easier example. Numbers 1-4, pick 3, cannot repeat, order matters. For order matters, there are 4*3*2 possibilities, or 24 possibilities. For unordered, there are only 4 possibilities.

I'll list them out, if you don't believe me.

1,2,3
1,2,4
1,3,4
2,3,4

Remember, that's the "order doesn't matter list". That's a 1:4 chance of winning vs. the 1:24 of ordered, which is simple math, 4*3*2.

I forget the formula for unordered, but do all the combos of ordered, if you don't believe 24 is the max. It is.

cool a d2jsp lottery nice work paul

is there a way to see how many tickets were purchased every hour?

Yeah you're right the unordered odds are 42840 divided by 6, which is 1 in 7140...

Good Job Paul

Great Feature.

~Kinky.