On Monday June 30 2003 11:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> If I had a text file that contained the winning Powerball numbers
> in our state for the last 10 years, what would be the easiest way
> to search it for the numbers that occurred the most often.
> Hopefully output to a text file, in descending order by rank?
>
> Can I do that from bash?
>
> Thanks!
Well, I saw you got an answer, now don't bet on it like I infer
you're fixin too ;) A knowledge, even intuitively, of random
mathematics, theory of chaos, would suggest that past numbers would
be more unlikely to turn up than those in future sets? More likely
to included? Answer is No to both, but what t'hey, try usin those
sorted numbers, or avoid usin 'em. Tickets don't cost much, but
buyin multiple tickets only increases your losses, not your chances
in any appreciable sense. Worst way to decrease chances is usin the
same number set all the time. Specially if they would'a won the one
time you forgot to play 'em ;>
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