proof on the common folk knowledge on destiny, ugly lottery numbers

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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway

oh yes .. but it DOES make a big difference if there are some other people with the same number in addition to you.

Having the same number twice will double your winnings if two or more people share the winning number.

To calculate your advantage you need to factor the likelihood of other people having your number as well as you into your probabilities.

i was researching and theres a caught with football pools at least in spain

if you make for independent bets 11111111,11111111,01111111 and 11111110

and 111111111 turns out you have two winning tickets of first cattegory and two of second ctattegory

but if you bet on double111111double and 11111111 turns out you dont get two winning tickets of first category and two of second but one of first cattegory and two winning ticlets of second cattegory

omg what a scammers like if the 45% house edge wasnt enough

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TIN FOIL HAT ON

all right you can agree than on an undefined length binary string the number 11 will appear every six digits

but on a two digit string it will appear 1 time evry FOUR

well its so easy that i find it scarry

instead of filling a football pool every week fill all the future ones in a rwo taking this into account that in binary 11 happens every six digits and in trinary every 52 instead of four or 27 if you filled it according proabaility starting from scratch every week

ill keep the tinfoil hat seems it works

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theres like the most common face what about the most common number

1 happens every two times, 11 happens every 6 times,111 happens every 14 times

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