My Lottery Challenge

[AV1611VET]

Use all the science you can find and tell me what the next winning lottery number is going to be, so I can feed those starving in India.

Use astronomy, biology, chemistry, dentistry, Egyptology, fluid dynamics, geology, heliology, iamatology, kymatology, lithology, meteorology, nephology, oceanography, paleobotany, quinology, rheology, seismology, thalassography, uranology, vulcanology, xylology, or zoology, if you have to.

Use any hypothesis, law, principle, study, test, chart, graph, line, poll, vote, advice, or any miscellaneous input you can find.

Just tell me what the next winning lottery number is going to be, so I can feed the starving in India.

If you can't respond to this challenge with a series of numbers, instead of words, then please don't bother.

Thank you ... (and I'm sure India will thank you too).

 

[Skavau]

There are many different lotteries going on.

Which one?

 

[Elias526]

Use all the science you can find and tell me what the next winning lottery number is going to be, so I can feed those starving in India.

Actually they use science so you can not guess what the winning lottery number is going to be. You would do a lot better to figure out a winning stock. Warren Buffet seems to be good at that.

 

[Elendur]

The whole idea with the lottery is that it's random, though that seems like a concept that's hard to grasp to some.

 

[AV1611VET]

Actually they use science so you can not guess what the winning lottery number is going to be.

Interesting ... I never looked at it that way!

Good job ... thanks!

I stand corrected!

 

[Elias526]

Interesting ... I never looked at it that way!

Your riddles are usually so easy that I was starting to get over confident in myself. Then someone gave me a riddle I ended up googling the solution because I was getting confused by it.

• Three men rent a hotel room. Each pays $10 for a total of $30 spent on the room. The next day the hotel owner tells the three men that they over paid for the room as it only costs $25. The three men tell the owner to give them each a dollar back and he can keep two dollars.
  
  If you do the math, each man paid $9 a piece for the room for a total of $27. The owner kept $2 which brings the total to $29.
  
  The question is where did the other dollar go?

 

[Blayz]

Your riddles are usually so easy that I was starting to get over confident in myself. Then someone gave me a riddle I ended up googling the solution because I was getting confused by it.

• Three men rent a hotel room. Each pays $10 for a total of $30 spent on the room. The next day the hotel owner tells the three men that they over paid for the room as it only costs $25. The three men tell the owner to give them each a dollar back and he can keep two dollars.
  
  If you do the math, each man paid $9 a piece for the room for a total of $27. The owner kept $2 which brings the total to $29.
  
  The question is where did the other dollar go?

Yer kidding, right? Each man paid $9 a piece for room + tip for a total of $27, being $25 for the room and $2 for the tip. There is no missing dollar. For some reason you are adding in the $2 tip again to reach $29.

 

[Elendur]

Your riddles are usually so easy that I was starting to get over confident in myself. Then someone gave me a riddle I ended up googling the solution because I was getting confused by it.

• Three men rent a hotel room. Each pays $10 for a total of $30 spent on the room. The next day the hotel owner tells the three men that they over paid for the room as it only costs $25. The three men tell the owner to give them each a dollar back and he can keep two dollars.
  
  If you do the math, each man paid $9 a piece for the room for a total of $27. The owner kept $2 which brings the total to $29.
  
  The question is where did the other dollar go?

25 isn't dividable by three, that's where the confusion appears.
If it had been 24 or 27 you could've said they each paid 8 or 9 dollars each.
So if you do the math like you propose, you've done it wrong.

A different solution:
They've given him 30 dollars.
The cost was 25 dollars.
He owes them 5 dollars.
He gives them back 3 dollars.
They ignore the remaining debt of two dollars.

 

[CaliforniaSun]

Ok, then we'll test it against prayer. Pray to your god and ask what the next New York lottery winning number will be.After all, if he's such a loving chap, he would want to feed all the people in India too.
New York Lottery

 

[CabVet]

Ok, then we'll test it against prayer. Pray to your god and ask what the next New York lottery winning number will be.After all, if he's such a loving chap, he would want to feed all the people in India too.
New York Lottery

Oh, God versus science! I like it! Odds are both will get it wrong! Either that, or God does not answer to lottery number prayers

 

[Ubogion]

how many children can be fed with all the money from the lotteries in the world?

 

[Elendur]

how many children can be fed with all the money from the lotteries in the world?

Oooo, lets pray for that!

 

[jayem]

You can be assured of winning simply by buying every possible combination. You don't need God or science to do that. Just a lot of money, patience, and a way to generate all those tickets.

 

[Ubogion]

You can be assured of winning simply by buying every possible combination. You don't need God or science to do that. Just a lot of money, patience, and a way to generate all those tickets.

would that only work, when the prize is larger then the cost of all the tickets required.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Originally Posted by jayem You can be assured of winning simply by buying every possible combination. You don't need God or science to do that. Just a lot of money, patience, and a way to generate all those tickets.

would that only work, when the prize is larger then the cost of all the tickets required.

A guy printed up his own prize entries in this movie and won big time.
I couldn't find that particular clip on utube, but I did find this humorous clip from it....Great movie!

Real Genius - Kent talks to Jesus - YouTube

 

[m.a.r.X]

Can anyone post a 20 or so consecutive winning lottery ticket numbers ?

I might try to test the hypotheses that its not random and then try to fit a mathematical equation for best fit and then predict the winning lottery ticket

BTW, I'm from India.

 

[Rusticus]

Can anyone post a 20 or so consecutive winning lottery ticket numbers ?

I might try to test the hypotheses that its not random and then try to fit a mathematical equation for best fit and then predict the winning lottery ticket

BTW, I'm from India.

Ah, predicting randomness - which, once predicted, is then no longer random: math's final challenge.

 

[Elendur]

Well as I've understood it the random number generators are taking from a library with a whole lot of numbers just stacked upon each other (that information is taken from my limited experience working with C).
That would make it possible to predict, with a lot of data beforehand, what the next numbers would be, due to either periodicity or intimate knowledge of the process (how their program chooses from the numbers).
Possible, not practical. There might even be (most likely) processes to prevent back tracking like this.

 

[m.a.r.X]

Random numbers are not actually not random according to a wacko in the Discovery channel. He says the *random number generators*'s o/p variance relates with major events happening in the world.
For examle, he says, US Presidential elections caused a big spike in his variance graph computer thingy !!!

I forgot his name BTW

 

[m.a.r.X]

math's final challenge.

I thought that it was the value of the infinity, the final challenge of mathematics !