Posted by Ion Saliu on April 14, 2001 WE.

In Reply to: Free Lotteries on the Web posted by Nik Barker on April 12, 2001 at 09:31:22:

• Actually, I cannot verify now, let alone validate, my own statement. The free online lotteries are unregulated private enterprises. They can easily check what lotto combinations were played and decide to draw a non-winning combination. The software can do it so easily! The state lotteries are under stricter control. The drawings are televised. It is much harder to “rig” the numbered lotto balls. It is a very rare exception fixing a lottery drawing. I know, it happened before right here, in Pennsylvania (the subject of a movie that was not to be; had had John Travolta as the star).

•• Everything is random, the Universe is ruled by randomness. The variation is in the degree of certainty (or probability of appearance). Randomness is the fairest form of being and not-being. There is no force to decide what is to be and not-to-be. The random interaction of forces creates what is and what is not.

As of randomness in computer software, some say it is pseudo-randomness. They actually refer to software written for the original IBM PC and Microsoft BASIC. The software generates "random" numbers based on a "seed", usually the timer. The timer measures number of seconds since midnight. There are only 86,400 seconds in a day. The variation in randomness is just too low, not only by computer standards. If the random generator is started exactly at the same second of the day, the same sequence of numbers is generated.

I heard stories of a state lottery being ripped-off by Keno players. The Keno numbers were generated by a computer precisely every 15 minutes: The same times of the day! The bare-bone timer was used as the randomizing seed. Thus, the Keno drawing of 9:00 PM yesterday will be the same today at 9:00 PM! The state lottery does not go bankrupt because they pay as prizes only 50% of ticket sales. But the lottery game itself would die, because lottery players expect fairness in randomness.

The degree of randomness can be “increased” by multiplying the timer by the date, and/or the geographical position, etc. The date is variable, therefore the seed turns into a variable. By contrast, the timer is just a constant, a number that never changes; it is always equal to 86400.

I remember when I used an Atari computer in the 1980’s WEB. The computer had a hardware-based random number generator. The degree of randomness was higher when using an Atari. The randomization seed Atari used was the quartz frequency of the CPU. Even if the frequency was just up to one million, the range 1 to 1000000 was randomly variable and offered a higher variation than 1 to 86400. The quartz frequency is never dependent on the time of the day, or the date. No wonder why my old, cheap Atari 800XL generated so many winning lotto combinations for me, including the astounding lotto jackpot with a number of combinations I was unable to play.

The Intel CPU chips are so fast now that they measure the frequency in giga hertz (GHz)! What an extraordinary random seed! Too bad, Windows does not allow direct hardware access by the software.

All things considered, my software is not dependent on the type of random number generation. Many, many lottery combinations are eliminated beforehand or by using external filters. The lottery filters offer wide variation, and therefore a high degree of randomness.

• Basic source code, algorithm to generate true random & unique numbers.

Ion Saliu

: Dear Ion

: First may I thank you for clearly being so devoted to your site and for spending so much time in offering ,to whoever happens to turn up here, your knowledge and experience.

: I have spent a good deal of time studying your site and find it very interesting. I certainly wouldn't agree with all your philosophies (but then if we all agreed with them, that, in itself, would render them worthless!), but it is interesting to read them.

: I noticed on the message board that last year you spoke about Free lotteries and said this...

: "It appears that the numbers are genuinely RANDOM. We could assume that the drawings are conducted fairly, without “fixing”"

: I assume you think this because the player does not have to gamble as such - and therefore, that there would be no motive for the provider to make it unfair or fixed.

: However, I would make this point. Often with these lotteries you HAVE to click on a banner to register your numbers for the draw. This is what generates the revenue (from the sponsors) for the jackpot. I am certain we can all rest assured that if someone is offering a $1Million prize money for 'free' then THEY WILL HAVE DONE THEIR SUMS and will have worked out that they don't want the player to win the jackpot as many times as TRUE RANDOMNESS would allow, because this in itself would probably bankrupt them - let alone have to pay out MORE than TR would allow because of well thought out software like yours.

: The other thing to consider is that any random number generated by a computer is never a TRUE random number but is part of a (usually huge) sequence.

: I look forward to downloading and trying some of your freeware soon.
: All the best and good luck
: NB

PS
Kulai:
Ce caine esti, mai, barbarule!
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