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2. Lottery mathematics - Wikipedia

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   Lottery mathematics is used to calculate probabilities of winning or losing a lottery game. It is based primarily on combinatorics, particularly the twelvefold way and combinations without replacement. It can also be used to analyze coincidences that happen in lottery drawings, such as repeated numbers appearing across different draws. [1

3. Quick Pick vs Picking Your Own Lotto Numbers: Is One ... - AOL

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   Here's the difference between choosing your own lotto numbers versus using a random number generator. ... Others require different combinations in order to get the prize. Read the instructions ...

4. Lottery wheeling - Wikipedia

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   Lottery wheeling (also known as a lottery system, lottery wheel, or lottery wheeling system) is a method of systematically selecting multiple lottery tickets to improve the odds of (or guarantee) a win. It is widely used by individual players and syndicates to secure wins provided they hit some of the drawn numbers.

5. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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   The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.

6. How does the lottery work, anyway? - AOL

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   How Are Lottery Numbers Drawn? Time for the fun part! There are two main types of lottery-drawing machines: the air mix machine and the gravity pick machine.

7. Lottery (decision theory) - Wikipedia

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   Thus, each lottery has an expected utility, a linear combination of the utilities of the outcomes in which weights are the subjective probabilities. [3] It is also founded in the famous example, the St. Petersburg paradox : as Daniel Bernoulli mentioned, the utility function in the lottery could be dependent on the amount of money which he had ...

8. Random number generation - Wikipedia

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   Dice are an example of a mechanical hardware random number generator. When a cubical die is rolled, a random number from 1 to 6 is obtained. Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator (RNG), a sequence of numbers or symbols is generated that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance.

9. Combinatorial design - Wikipedia

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   The Hungarian Lottery is a (90,5,5,t)-lotto design and it is known that L(90,5,5,2) = 100. Lotteries with parameters (49,6,6,t) are also popular worldwide and it is known that L(49,6,6,2) = 19. In general though, these numbers are hard to calculate and remain unknown. [18] A geometric construction of one such design is given in Transylvanian ...