Public domain (free project)

[pmcleod]

Idea for another project.

Pocket sized random number generator for lottery tickets.
Calculate odds based on past winning numbers and selectable for different lotteries.

Of course calculating the odds is easy, past numbers have no effect on future numbers

[mackrackit]

past numbers have no effect on future numbers

Maybe maybe not...
Now we would have to look into Chaos Theory, Entropy, Second Law of Thermodynamics, and my GRANDMA'S LUCKY BINGO CARD

[pmcleod]

Personally, I'd go with grandma's lucky bingo cared every time, it's alright I have been *discussing* with my father the tossing of coins, he insists that if I tossed 4 heads the next one was most likely to be a tail, blinking retired mechanical engineers, whatever next.

[mackrackit]

Personally, I'd go with grandma's lucky bingo cared every time, it's alright I have been *discussing* with my father the tossing of coins, he insists that if I tossed 4 heads the next one was most likely to be a tail, blinking retired mechanical engineers, whatever next.

You should always listen to your elders.

Welcome to the forum.

[T.Jackson]

I've seen the calculated odds in a Visual Basic program, believe me, not very good - many, many millions from memory. God the people behind it must be stinking rich, probably so rich in fact, that occasionally they fix a win to someone every now and them just to off load some money that they just simply don't know what to do with. Should I pass a couple of million onto someone who I know is gonna give half of it to charity or just let it sit beside the other 1,000 trillion that we have? Feeling generous today - lets fix a win

[Ioannis]

At least in my Country, from a lot of "evidence" I am strongly convined that this lottery thing is setup. Every now and then there is a jackpot almost every holiday! So no machine could predict the next numbers this way. Sure past numbers have no effect on future numbers that way.

I decided that the only way to make money is to work! And sure it feels good when you are paid for the good job you've done.

Ioannis

[T.Jackson]

Yeah - it's probably all bull. I think a lot of these game show on TV are like this too.

[pmcleod]

You should always listen to your elders.

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks for thet welcome, i feel a bit of a fraud in here, I don't use PBP, though I did buy a copy years and years ago from RS I think, the manual then was about 25 pages with very basic info on, I never did get a project working, so I did it all in assembler. Now I have proton basic with a great thick manual, but hang around here because I've learnt a lot of general PIC things and you guys have some interesting ideas

[mackrackit]

Thanks for thet welcome, i feel a bit of a fraud in here, I don't use PBP, though I did buy a copy years and years ago from RS I think, the manual then was about 25 pages with very basic info on, I never did get a project working, so I did it all in assembler. Now I have proton basic with a great thick manual, but hang around here because I've learnt a lot of general PIC things and you guys have some interesting ideas

Give PBP a try again!!! Then you will not have to feel like a fraud

[pmcleod]

Give PBP a try again!!! Then you will not have to feel like a fraud

It was so long ago, I seem to remember it came on 1 or 2 floppies, even if I could find it I doubt it'd do much useful and finding it will not be easy it may well have gone in the bin during the factory move last year one awful lot of stuff did