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by DC_Treybil
Sun May 15, 2016 4:45 pm
Forum: Lottery Discussion
Topic: I love these programs
Replies: 30
Views: 50493

Re: I love these programs

Countifs is also great! 6/45 = 8 million tickets. 3N and above prize winnings tickets means just 2% are winning tickets. This = 1 in 42. Buy 20 tickets means 42/20 = 1 win in 2.1 attempts. But, you get 40 tickets, this means you win 1 in 1.2. This explains why you hit every time. . . . . . FWIW, if...
by DC_Treybil
Sun May 15, 2016 2:30 pm
Forum: Lotto Player's Knowledge Base
Topic: Mathematics (Jackpot) - Number drawn X times in last Y draws
Replies: 9
Views: 55758

Re: Mathematics (Jackpot) - Number drawn X times in last Y d

Below are two tables. The first shows the odds of getting "n" or more consecutive hits with odds of 2 : 1. "n" is in the first column. The second table shows the actual values of powers of 2 0 to 2 21 next to the corresponding result from the first table. The two results track nicely up to 2 15 . Af...
by DC_Treybil
Sun May 15, 2016 2:35 am
Forum: Lottery Discussion
Topic: Probability formula
Replies: 3
Views: 11586

Re: Probability formula

I'm assuming that 5/50 means there are 50 possible values and 5 draws. If this is the concept of the drawing you have in mind, there are 2,118,760 possible combinations. Assuming you're drawing exactly 5 balls, the odds of getting 1 ball are 0.351608959957711 (or 2.844068593 : 1) Again, assuming you...