Has anyone done a simple review of the winning expectations for the big lotteries.
I am wondering if the recent three winners is to be expected in the same way two people in a classroom will have a birthday on the same day. I am half way curious if the RNG they use can be expected to cover all combinations equally (in the limit of time) or if there are possible systematic omissions. If systematic omissions are possible then the quick pick community would see multiple wins in a winning draw and profitable bias for the lottery with gaps of non winners. The multiple wins are pool divisors not multipliers so the game would not care how many win an individual draw. If the quick pick and birthday numbers do contain a bias than "true random bits" would have a better chance of collecting a bigger pot.... modulo the buy all combinations at the point the odds favor that strategy. On the other side would a set of quick pick numbers make a decent personal key or seed to generate large PRNs to uses for other key strategies. Some people would sell a TRNG for $100+/- which is a lot of quick pick RNs for an individual. Thanks, mitch -- T o m M i t c h e l l
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