Debra
nisaba said:It is my feeling that any numbers you draw would be *less* likely to come out than before you draw them, because they have already come out once ...
I'm not following, Nisaba, and I'd like to, because I am intrigued by Nevada's suggestion.
Straining my brain to remember statistics: First time through, each card has a 1/78 chance of being drawn; subsequent draws would be 1/77, 1/76, 1/75 etc. It's 1/n; 1/n-1 etc.
(Whew. I must lie down for a moment.)
Ok, I'm recovered.
To give each card an equal chance of being drawn in a series requires replacing each drawn card into the deck each time.
So one might draw #34, for example, more than once in a series of draws.
Since I don't know a thing about how the lotteries here work, I don't know how many numbers one would even want if one wanted them, which I don't but yesterday's client did. I assume if there are, say, six numbers in the lotto, she could specify 34, 34, 34, 34, 34, 34; or any combination of any 6. But I don't know.
(Shall I bet on #34?)