Random Generator
I almost forgot about drafting this post.
It actually naughtily applies to all lotteries
which claim to have a random
or whatever type of method the winning numbers
are selected, or (ehem) drawn.
Repeated calls to show how the numbers are drawn
at Western Canada Lottery Corporation were ignored.
So we will assume that the video displayed is the
official draw.
This is odd–
There are incessant claims that the numbers
are drawn by Random generation.
Now, we do consider drawing numbers by balls as
Random Generation?
Simply no,
because the balls themselves ARE THE NUMBERS.
These are physical representations of numbers
and being so can be different between themselves.
These difference may be responsible for the particular ball
to be drawn, such as difference in size, shape, weight,
smoothness, and so forth.
When every thing is even,
what is selected from a group
is truly of a random basis.
The criterion is therefore similarity in everything.
Random Generation can therefore be achieved most securely
in a computerized setting.
To wit : picture a computer with a pointer going thru each of
49 locations serially, not randomly,
serially, one after another–
#1 to # 49.
A button is pressed and the scanning stops.
The number it points to is a drawn number.
The computer is not programmed to stop by itself
because if so,
it will stop at the same number every time.
The randomness, therefore,
is not the scanning by the pointer
but by the timing in the computer’s cycle.
And since it is cycling in nanoseconds, the numbers are
considered drawn randomly.
Restarting the scanning will generate more numbers.
But of course, less winners of the pot would mean
bigger pots next draw.
(haw can this random generator be rigged?)