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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Lotto numbers
Message-ID: <1603@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 90 13:17:32 GMT
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toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:

>[A lotto player] writes:
>>Does anyone know if lotto numbers are available anywhere in electronic
>>form? can be downloaded?

>the numbers are picked at random (previous numbers do *not* affect the
>results), you should post this to alt.stupidity. :-(

Except that the machines are physical, and as such certain physical effects
CAN affect the outcome, so that it is not entirely random.

For instance Some of the ping pong balls weigh slightly more than the others
(the ball itself, and some numbers use more ink than others), so that you
can look at the past performance of a certain machine and tell that some
numbers come up more than others. But this usually does no good to look at
past performance of other machines, only the ones you are betting on. And
even that doesn't always work if they change the balls often. 



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