Catchalotto

[catchalotto]

http://www.catchalotto.co.uk. Try and see.

[Frank]

(10-07-2009 10:06 PM)catchalotto Wrote:  http://www.catchalotto.co.uk. Try and see.

At 30% comission win or lose?
If you wish to advertise your site I'm sure Len will give you his tariff for this service. How much are you prepared pay - 30% ?

[catchalotto]

Hi Frank

Thanks for your response, even if slightly negative . To that point, we can only say that if you know of any online payment provider that will allow our user to load money into account without incurring a charge to us, please let us know and everyone can play at net cost, e.g.

[Frank]

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Hi Frank

Thanks for your response, even if slightly negative . To that point, we can only say that if you know of any online payment provider that will allow our user to load money into account without incurring a charge to us, please let us know and everyone can play at net cost, e.g.

[catchalotto]

and does your online payment provider charge YOU 30%?.
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It all depends on volume, more customers, cheaper it gets - you know the drill. But taking

[catchalotto]

no more 30%! Each play is

[Frank]

Yes I see... you don't mention the other costs, though, added here for fairness...
" We charge

[catchalotto]

Thanks Frank for feedback, much appreciated. We constantly evolve, so it's good to see things via someone else's eyes, so to speak. Well, there is no escape for the charges above, but believe us, there is no interest earned here. They are just about covering variable costs (payment provider, in terms of a winning charge, postage costs).
Complexity in terms and conditions are there so we do not get shifted by scammers, as there are quite a few of them nowadays, trying to launder money etc. If you read it, there is nothing there that we don't say on our pages.

As far as lottery analysis is concerned, each to their own I guess. Some like to choose their own numbers, some play lucky dip all the time. We are primarily a lottery syndication site, if you dont believe that Lottorino (filtering system) makes a difference, thats fine, you just pick your own combination, pay no attention to Lottorino. Lottorino is there because we believe that more often than not it works. We will soon be experimenting in running a file with combinations with Lottorino >70% or >90% (you'll see it on the site), just to see how many combinations are sieved out, how often we can trap jackpot...

As for 4004 draws, we cross that bridge when we get there. But as before, we'll evolve, Lottorino is not set-and-forget tool. If lottery patterns change (like past drawn combinations start appearing), we will tweak Lottorino to reflect the most likely scednarios.

As for sausages, fish, bird, hedgehod... Your sausage should have more apperances with some but not others. So yeah, we can make most probable scenarions by looking at these,like if sausage has never appeared with fish, can it be though, what are the chances etc. Also, "We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." So whatever sequence it is, there could be patterns, but we just don't (yet?) know for certain that they exist and what they are?! But it sure is fun in exploring!

"Birthday problem", can you expand on that?

Sausage, carrot, or even fish, whatever it is, let's win the main dish!

[Frank]

Quote:"Birthday problem", can you expand on that?

Sure ........what is the minumum number of people in a room before there is a 50% chance of 2 people sharing the same birthday ?

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.birthdayprob.html

Enjoy !

Edit:-

The answer is 23 which is unbelivably small because the more people there are in the room, the more multiple comparisons (person to other person) are taking place.


If instead of comparing birthdays, each had a ticket in their pocket with a number 1 to 365 and they compared those, the problem would be the same, with the same result.

Now expand the ticket to a number between 1 and 13,983,816. How many people need to be in the room until the probability that 2 numbers matched was more than 50% ? Like I said its 4404 (50.01%).

[catchalotto]

That's interesting to know. So Bulgarian lottery, which is about 50 years old judging by their lottery spokesman, supports your numbers. They had repeat combination in September. Good thing is that we have another 30 years or so, unless we're really unlucky and combination repeats sooner than that.