hello and thank you everyone for your help.
I apologize for my ignorance when it came to knowledge of what the
powerball is it is not as wide spread as i had thought it was
the powerball is a form of lottery their are 5 numbers between 1 and
55, and then their is the powerball between 1 and 42 players win
different amounts of money depending on how many numbers they had
right the program i wrote uses the number 146107962 as the amount of
tickets in play i found this number on the powerball stat as the
probability of getting jackpot 1 / 146107962 included is the finished
and working script if anyone would like to use or play with it.
from random import randrange # for creating random numbers
wins=0 # to see how many people would win
win=[] # the winning numbers go here
count=0
for count in range(5): # powerball uses 5 numbers
win.append(randrange(55)+1)
powerball=randrange(42)+1
count=0
while count != 146107962: # point of information useing for count in range(146107962) will overlaoad with this large a number
numbers=[] # guesses
count2=0
for count2 in range(5):
number=randrange(55)+1
if number in win: # if the number is in the winning numbers continue
numbers.append(number)
else:
print "lose" # else quite while ahead
break
numbers.sort()
win.sort()
ball=randrange(42)+1 #picks the powerball
if ball == powerball:
print "win"
wins=wins+1
count=count+1
print
print wins,"winners with", win, powerball
seeing as i have left the python mailing list in the past any
comments or ideas would be appreciated if sent to this email - thank
you
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