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 ;>
And of course if you do win, don't forget to mention your distro. Headlines like "Mandrake magics lottery numbers" would get our favourite distro out of the red overnight ;-)
Sir Robin
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