Many people try to unravel the mystery of gambling. Do not be misled, winning the Lottery jackpot is truly hard.
However, it is possible to give yourself a better chance. Because of random numbers generators, we can rescue our incorrect concept of random distribution.
Human can not generate random strings. String 111111 may be from a random source, but a homo-sapiens will say it is not. As a result, by buying lotto ticket with own selected numbers we:
- tend to select schemes that doesn't exist
- select fewer combinations tha possible (people choose more numbers inside coupon)
- select evenly distributed numbers
- select similar combinations (potential division of winnings)
SOLUTION? - Use a number generator. Do you know that most of the Lotto prizes are won with random bets (quick pick option by lottery retailer)?
We do not know, however, what kind of generator is used by lottery system. For many years I used pseudorandom generators found in the internet. And that was a mistake.
Generators using simple php, javascript or c: simple functions
- they have a poorly seeded (seed) that should be random
- often based on the server time function seed
- they loop through repeating patterns (not enough random)
- THEY CAN'T OUTPUT EVERY POSSIBLE COMBINATION OF LOTTO (bad mechanism)!!!
This way we limit ourselves and are so unlikely to win
Image generated by weak generator (php rand() in old versions):
Image generated by good generator:
http://www.africanlottery.net/tools/number-generator/
That's why I created probably the world's only number generator based on the cryptographic generator ISAAC. (Thanks for the theoretical help to Amadeus, who deals with cryptography every day.)
Tool is available at the address given above.
The mechanism is based on the cryptographically powerful ISAAC generator [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAAC_(cipher)].
This is a pseudorandom ISAAC with a random seed of 1024 bytes downloaded from random server system data using the MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM function, implemented in php.
What's more, you can automatically download (API) the full random data to SEED of this generator from the popular respected site http://www.random.org! Just tick the option in the form.
ISAAC itself is an incredibly powerful generator that can make every possible combination without the omission of some of them, and what is more it can still be initiated by a fully randomized seed.
Users of popular polish lottery fan site, who have been playing Lotto for many years, have lost to this generator. And it "just" generates random cominations - and won more! (actually lost less because the advantage of lotto is about 70% (roulette - 2% )).
Research on random distributions is amazing and difficult, very few people know how much randomness affects our lives. I will try to change it in my posts.
nice pic
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