Global response: Upgrading MDIEditor and Lotto WE; in beta

Written by Ion Saliu on November 08, 2001.

• I announced I have been working on a major upgrade to MDIEditor and Lotto. Apparently, the announcement caused curiosity. I am unable to respond to every question on an individual basis. I still wonder why so many individuals believe they are the only person in the whole world that I deal with! As if the entire planet were populated by two individuals, and only two! Sometimes I get so many emails (with/out questions) that I can only select 'em all and delete 'em globally. Even if I had nothing else to do, it would be a chore to just read and respond to questions.

I try, however not to hurt anybody's feelings. I will respond globally. I have no illusion I'll be able to cover all the bases.

•• The new version of MDIEditor and Lotto is named 1_WE at this time.
The application will not be freeware. No way I can offer it for free again. For one, it causes a lot of pain in my butt. We all know Murphy's Law:
“The amount of our generosity should be indirect proportionate to the pain in the butt our generous effort generates. Otherwise, we will reach a point of not being able to sit and thus be forced to kick around on a piece of ground for the rest of our lives.”

horse-filters Secondly, the new MDIEditor and Lotto is a very powerful beast that devours the odds. The free lotto and lottery and gambling software enables only a couple of filters. You can see its power. But imagine that all the filters were enabled, and then some. I added new and significantly powerful filters. Here is a sample of the statistical report for horseracing.

...
                               * Horse # 12 * Hits: 6 

* Any Position:  28  4  1  33  2  13 
* Sorted Skips:  1  2  4  13  28  33 
* Median Skip Any:  4 

* 1st: 28  57 
Sorted Skips:  28  57 
* Median Skip 1st:  28 

** 2nd: 33  1  33 
Sorted Skips:  1  33  33 
* Median Skip 2nd:  33 

*** 3rd: 72 
Sorted Skips:  72 
* Median Skip 3rd:  72 


    * Average Median:  3 
    * Sorted Skip Medians: 
 0  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  2  3  3  3 

••• The new MDIEditor and Lotto handles the following games:
- pick 3
- pick 4
- horseracing (like pick 3)
- lotto 5
- lotto 6
- lotto 7
- PowerBall '5+1'
- PowerBall '6+1'

The pick 3, pick 4, and horseracing programs have three options:
- optimally random
- sequential
- purge.
The 'optimally random' is the feature you can see in the freeware version.
The 'sequential option' works like the freeware LotWon3. The routine generates pick 3 combinations sequentially, from the beginning to the end. For example:
0,2,3
3,6 2
7,8,8
9,0,3
The 'purge option' works like the freeware LotWon3. The routine takes a file of previously generated combinations and “purges” the combinations based on a set of filters.

The lotto 5, lotto 6, lotto 7, PowerBall 5+1, and PowerBall 6+1 programs have two options:
- optimally random
- purge.

All the programs use a common filter-input form (like the one in the freeware version). There is a new text box to input the digits/numbers a user wants to eliminate. You have the statistical report in a window already. You can simply copy and paste digits/numbers with the current streak above the median skip.
All the programs share five common filters: Ion1 to Ion5.
Then, the programs use a number of filters specific to the game. For example, the pick-3 game uses the filters Any1 to Any3 and Ver1 to Ver3. Meanwhile, a lotto-7 game uses the filters Any1 to Any7 and Ver1 to Ver7. The PowerBall games use also an additional filter: PowerBall! It eliminates all the PowerBall numbers from the previous m draws/forces all the PowerBall numbers to repeat from the previous M draws.

Every filter has a minimum level and a maximum level (like LotWon).

As you can see, the new MDIEditor and Lotto uses fewer filters. Nevertheless, they are more potent, pound for pound.

Yes, I tried to put absolutely all the lottery filters from DOS and Windows in one application. Problem is, each operating system has insurmountable limitations, as far as lottery crunching is concerned.
DOS, especially the 32-bit incarnation offered by PowerBasic is very powerful. The performance is awesome. Unfortunately, the presentation has serious limitations. It is very hard and unsightly to display long text lines on screen. Too many filters make it harder to select filters.

Windows, including the 32-bit platform, is a slowpoke, as far as lottery crunching is concerned. Try for yourself. Use first the 32-bit LotWon (even the 16-bit LotWon lottery software is faster). Do the statistical report for the lotto-6 game, for 300 draws. I did it for a 6/69 game. In UTIL632, the report was ready in 5 seconds. In MDIEditor and Lotto, I waited 40 seconds for the report. Mind you, UTIL632 does many more reports than MDIEditor and Lotto (most-6, least-6, best-6, pairs-6 …).
Windows has, however, a tremendous advantage in usage. It makes it easier to work with any kind of data.

So, I tried to bridge the gap by way of the purge option. You can generate combinations in DOS LotWon and save them to file. Then load the file in MDIEditor and Lotto and purge it. Vice-versa, generate combinations in MDIEditor and Lotto and save them to file. Then load the file in DOS LotWon and purge it. You get a most astonishing result. Take it from the guy who cares a lot more about his position in the future than about his pocket in the present, future, or past participle.

At this time, only the digit and horseracing routines are ready. It's all I can say for now. When it's ready, I'll say it's ready ASAP.

Ion Saliu

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Comments:
: Upgrade MDIEditor and Lotto: best lottery, lotto and gambling software. I announced I have been working on a major upgrade to MDIEditor and Lotto. Apparently, the announcement caused curiosity. I am unable to respond to every question on an individual basis. I still wonder why so many individuals believe they are the only person in the whole world that I deal with! As if the entire planet were populated by two individuals, and only two! Sometimes I get so many emails (with/out questions) that I can only select 'em all and delete 'em globally. Even if I had nothing else to do, it would be a chore to just read and respond to questions. I try, however not to hurt anybody's feelings. I will respond globally. I have no illusion I'll be able to cover all the bases. The new version of MDIEditor and Lotto is named 1_WE at this time. The application will not be freeware. No way I can offer it for free again. Secondly, the new MDIEditor and Lotto is a very powerful beast that devours the odds. The freeware enables only a couple of filters. You can see its power. But imagine that all the filters were enabled, and then some. I added new and significantly powerful filters. Here is a sample of the statistical report for horseracing. The new MDIEditor and Lotto handles the following games: - pick 3; - pick 4; - horseracing (like pick 3); - lotto 5; - lotto 6; - lotto 7; - PowerBall '5+1'; Euromillions Mega Millions. The pick 3, pick 4, and horseracing programs have three options: - optimally random The 'optimally random' is the feature you can see in the freeware version. The 'sequential option' works like the freeware LotWon3. The routine generates pick 3 combinations sequentially, from the beginning to the end. For example: The 'purge option' works like the freeware LotWon3. The routine takes a file of previously generated combinations and "purges" the combinations based on a set of filters. The lotto 5, lotto 6, lotto 7, PowerBall 5+1, and PowerBall 6+1 programs have two options: - optimally random. The PowerBall games use also an additional filter: PowerBall! It eliminates all the PowerBall numbers from the previous m draws/forces all the PowerBall numbers to repeat from the previous M draws. Every filter has a minimum level and a maximum level (like LotWon or the freeware). As you can see, the new MDIEditor and Lotto uses fewer filters. Nevertheless, they are more potent, pound for pound. Yes, I tried to put absolutely all the filters from DOS and Windows in one application. Problem is, each operating system has insurmountable limitations, as far as lottery crunching is concerned. DOS, especially the 32-bit incarnation offered by PowerBasic is very powerful. The performance is awesome. Unfortunately, the presentation has serious limitations. It is very hard and unsightly to display long text lines on screen. Too many filters make it harder to select lottery filters. At this time, only the digit and horseracing routines are ready. It's all I can say for now. When it's ready, I'll say it's ready ASAP. I had announced earlier that 1_WE was ready, except for the lottery tutorial. Nick Barker wrote it. I made a contribution as well. Then, I announced a delay as I came across a better randomizing function. That function was implemented in version 5 of the online generator (IonSaliuGen). I refined the randomizing function further. It is now not only time specific, but user specific as well. The random seed varies widely, between millions and billions. Chances are no two users will ever use the same random seed. Some users have found a problem with my software. They complain "It's no good to use winning lotto software if it has many users. The prizes will decrease!" Well, I see it as a positive. One should take advantage of a situation with few users in each lottery jurisdiction. One such situation would be running MDIEditor and Lotto WE with relaxed (loose) filter-settings. The new randomization scheme makes virtually impossible for two users to win in the same lottery jurisdiction, in the same drawing. Except, perhaps, for a very large number of combinations. If tight filters are used, however, chances are several users can win the same game, the same drawing. I expressed in my previous post the importance of randomness. Many are asking the question "What is randomness, after all?" Some reduce it to "unpredictability". "It is random, therefore it is unpredictable." Some come closer to the real nature of it and consider randomness to be a process without order. Those are the kind of lotto combinations that some lottery players "die" for. You can notice 4 lotto numbers from the last "decade" (40-49). Or 3 numbers from the 30's combined with numbers from the 40's… Nik tried to see how many lotto combinations the program would generate in a "hit" situation. He let the application run for hours, I think 14 hours in one case. No combinations generated. I checked the draws for the cases when Ion5 was 400+. I discovered that some draws were just outside the ranges of the normal probability rule. I relaxed the inner (innate) filters to accommodate the type of combinations generated by a tight Ion5. This new lottery strategy, consisting of just one filter setting has a huge potential. It can hit the jackpot with only a few tickets! The users need patience more that money to play! "MDIEditor and Lotto WE" has very demanding filters. Meanwhile, as I said, Windows is like the person who was hired as a rocket scientist based primarily on looks! I made nevertheless efforts to improve the algorithms. The increase in speed is dizzying, as far as unfiltered number generation is concerned. The new "Odds and Random" routines generate well over 100,000 combinations per minute! In the case of my 6/69 lotto game, the "Odds and Random" module generated 150,000 lotto combinations in one minute. I used next the "Optimized" function with a 20,000-combination data file. I only used the inner filters (all external filters disabled). The program generated 500 combinations in one minute. Only the inner filters have an efficiency ratio of 300. The application has also a new function that strips off duplicate lotto combinations. Many know by now, that when combinations start to repeat in a large volume, chances are good the winner is among them. Title: "Beta version of MDIEditor and Lotto WE: Lottery software, gambling software". The best, most comprehensive, lotto, lottery, gambling software: MDIEditor and Lotto WE a beta version 1.0_WE.