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It's in the MySQL database at home ... safe and sound.

Comment comment by VnutZ on 01 November 2007

You've collected and summarized a bunch of data here, but it would be much more useful (and straightforward) to run some inferential procedures (Monte Carlo procedures would be particularly easy to implement in this case) to see if these results were compatible with the hypothesis of a fair game. Give it a try!

Actually - using some optimized queries in MySQL against the tables that were created in the analysis allowed to rank score every conceivable lottery number. Optimization was needed to get the run time down from one year to about 36 hours. But, you don't think I'm going to give away MY number and share that -cough- winning -cough- with everybody?

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RE: It's in the MySQL database at home ... safe and sound. by Anonymous :: NR0

Are these numbers stored in the order they were drawn? I find it impossible to analyze data that is organized in ascending order. Please let me know. I have theories on pattern analysis. Oh yeah, don't forget to factor in leap year...

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