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HOT Lotto Numbers Improve Your Chances of Winning the Lotto
Your chances of winning the lottery are closer when you use HOT numbers. These are facts known by serious lottery players everywhere. Serious lottery players know how important HOT numbers are. So, if you are already a member of the choir, then this article is one of your favorite hymns. For the rest of you, enjoy the enchanting melody.
What are HOT Numbers? HOT lottery numbers are those numbers that have HIT more often than any other numbers. Usually, we talk about the top 10 HOT lottery numbers but, depending on the situation, we might talk about the top 15 or the top 5.
Let's set the stage. Obviously, in a 6 number lottery, 6 numbers are drawn. Therefore, over 100 drawings, 600 numbers are drawn. So, if we use the Illinois 6/52 lottery as an example, each lottery number should HIT 11.54 times. 600/52 = 11.54 This is logical, straight forward and wrong.
How could this possibly be wrong? The mathematics is correct! Well, it's wrong for a couple of reasons. First, how can any lottery number HIT 11.54 times? It can't. It can HIT 11 times or 12 times but never 11.54 times. No doubt, some of you think I'm playing you and you're RIGHT! But, I'm doing it to make a point. Do you see what it is? In order for the average to come out as a decimal fraction, some numbers must HIT more often than others.
Second, that average, 11.54, is very weak. It's weak because it is based on only 100 lottery drawings. In fact, it is so weak that some numbers may HIT 20 times and others will only HIT 5 times and everything else in between. These fluctuations above and below the expected average decrease as more drawings are held; the average becomes stronger.
I'm going to use a classic example to make my next point.
Everyone should know that the most probable outcome resulting from flipping a random coin 100 times is 50 heads and 50 tails. However, in reality you're more likely to get some other result; like 60 heads and 40 tails. In this case, there is a 20% error from what is expected. (60-50)/50 = 0.20 The mathematician would not be alarmed by this. He would simply say you haven't run enough trials. And, as you run more trials the percent error begins to shrink.
For example, if you were to conduct 500 trials the results begin to tighten to 550 heads and 450 tails. Now the percent error is only 10%. If you went all the way to 10,000 trials, you finally reach the point where, for all intents and purposes, the number of heads equals the number of tails; 5005 heads versus 4995 tails or 0.1% error. So, as you run more trials, the fluctuations shrink, the percent error shrinks and the average becomes stronger.
Now, here's the startling revelation! With the coin, there were only two possible outcomes; heads or tails. It took 10,000 trials before the wild fluctuations averaged themselves out. How many trials do you think it's going to take before all lottery numbers HIT the same number of times when there are not 2 possible outcomes, but 20,358,520 possible outcomes? I don't know what that number is but there are probably more zeros in that number than there are dollars in your paycheck.
It's a huge number! That means, for all intents and purposes, it could take millions of years before all lottery numbers occur the same number of times. This is great news to serious lottery players.
Good news because, our lottery playing life represents a very, very short time in lottery terms. And, in the short term, wide variation will exist between the number of hits for HOT and Cold numbers. The bottom line is, in our life time, consistently putting those HOT numbers in our play list gives us a long term statistical advantage. It increases our chances of winning the lottery.
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The Professor is a world-famous lottery expert, lecturer, columnist and the author of the breakthrough lottery software known as LONA. For a refreshing slant on the lottery, make Professor Dolph your Lottery Number Advisor.Author Profile: ProfessorDolph
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