Winning The Lottery Using Programming

1. 2015-11-15 at 2:37 AM UTC

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   SBTlauien African Astronaut
   Is it possible to bend your odds and win the lottery using programming skills and the past results? I read somewhere that's what some of the big lottery players do but I have my doubts.
2. 2015-11-16 at 3:30 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   that would imply some causal connection between previous winning lottery numbers which doesn't exist (in a non-deterministic sense, anyway) as far as I know
   
   most of the big players on the stock market do this though, trade based on algorithms... not sure how much it's progressed lately, only looked into it years ago
   
   I heard MIT students were banned from some casinos too, after a team was able scan velocity and position data and accurately predict the outcome of roulette spins
3. 2015-11-16 at 9:25 AM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Statistics would assist you far more than programming would. Alternatively check out the R programming language. Its based in statistics so it may be what your looking for.
4. 2015-11-16 at 8:08 PM UTC

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   SBTlauien African Astronaut
   After reading this I don't think it's possible. But, I'm going to write a program and just randomly generate a past results list, and then try to see if I can come up with an algorithm that won't bust. I did this around 10 years ago using BASIC, but it was for roulette. I'm talking more about the drawing type of games(Powerball and what not) rather than casino games.
   
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