Artificial intelligence in lottery numbers prediction – We are close to the New Year Lottery, that everyone should have dreamed about at least once in his/her life.
If being lucky is a matter of fate, numbers are a matter of Math or Technology, so it may be fair wondering if the use of mathematical formula or technology may help predicting lottery winning numbers.
The story of Stefan Mandel, a jewish australian-rumenian economist and mathematician who actually won the lottery 14 times, confirms that mathematical skills and human brain can certainly find the way.
It was 1964, when Mandel who was working as an accountant in a mining company in Romania, created a mathematical formula, based on Fibonacci probability studies, that could predict 5 out of 6 winning numbers of a lottery.
Mandel’s system consisted in discovering lotteries with a jackpot’s amount three or more times bigger than the total number of possible combinations, calculating the total number of combinations (for example, in a lottery draw of 6 numbers from 1 to 40, this means having 3.838.380 combinations) and then buying all the tickets reporting the corresponding combinations, with the financial help of groups of funders.
In his first attempt, Mandel aimed to win the lottery’s second prize, but beyond his expectations he and his supporters won the whole jackpot! Mandel won 5.000 dollars in Romanian lei, corresponding to 8 years of Romanian average salary, giving him the opportunity to move to Israel, where he graduated in Economics.
In 80’s he then moved to Australia, where he worked on a second algorithm that could win the lottery with a less number of tickets and he finally won 27 million dollars, with an investment of 7 millions!
Stefan Mandel: 14 times lottery winner
From 1987 on, Mandel (and his supporters) won the lottery 13 times in a row, untill Australian government changed lottery’s rules.
Mandel then aimed to the American lottery of Virginia, that compared to others, presented less combinations of numbers. Mandel planned to invest 7,1 million dollars to print every single ticket, that at the time could be printed even out of the Unites States. He used an amount of 20-30 tons of paper, 30 computers and 12 laser printers and spent 60.000 dollars to send tickets from Australia to United States by ship. He finally won the first prize, buying “only” 5 millions of tickets.
Mandel caused even American lottery rules to be changed and his obsession for jackpots even costed him 20 months of prison in Israel for fraud, when trying to replicate Virginia’s lottery he failed to give his investors the odds of winning. When out of prison he moved to the Island-Nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
Stefan Mandel’s story suggests a question: if human brain could find a way to mathematically win a lottery, can AI do the same?
Artificial intelligence in lottery numbers prediction
Artificial intelligence in lottery numbers prediction – Machine learning experts of the American company Solve, tried to answer this question by investigating randomness and uniform distribution criteria in lottery draws, using statistical analysis.
On a first place, they tried to understand how numbers are drawn randomly, sticking to uniform distribution statistic rules, meaning that each number every day has the same probability to be drawn.
If distribution is uniform there won’t be drastic spikes or lows, while if the distribution is not uniform there will be significant fluctuations.
The following examples, from Solve’s experts experiment, shows how numbers are randomly drawn in each draw set.
In conclusion, mathematician and machine learning experts agree that artificial intelligence cannot predict numbers randomly drawn, but AI can show how fair a lottery is, proving if each number has the same probability to be drawn.
In an old joke a poor man used to ask to his Saint to help him win the lottery, ’till the Saint exhausted told him to buy a ticket at least!
Likewise, as the Saint suggests, unless you don’t have Mandel’s mathematical brain and financial resources, you can only buy a lottery ticket to have your chance to win!
Source:
https://www.statistiche-lotto.it/stefan-mandel-metodo-condensazione-combinatoria/
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