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The lottosonline article is so beside the point. The original paper uses lottery outcomes from all over the world as the seed for "truly random" numbers. For ex
by jpfr 11y ago
The lottosonline article is so beside the point. The original paper uses lottery outcomes from all over the world as the seed for "truly random" numbers. For example to define cryptographic curves where no government agency can introduce their magic constants.
On a meta-level, casino and lottery operators have an incentive to push content of that sort. More than once have I been reminded in a casino that the inventor of the Roulette game was a mathematician. "So maybe there is some structure in the results after all".
It's as if they were planting a thought from which the number-crazies and gampling-addicted emerge. There are always some poor souls who think they can crack the code.
- venomsnake 11y agoWell I could probably create pretty good predictive algorithm (beating the house edge) for (this) roulette and this croupier given enough cameras and math/physics geniuses. After all the game obeys newton mechanics. And muscle memory generates quite repeatable results of ball and wheel spin momentum. Also I would not be surprised if some really good croupiers with long years of practice are able to spin the wheel in ways that would give statistically significant deviations from randomness.