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Thoughts for the pessimists
What makes your brain tick?
According to researchers, any part of your body, if you don't use it you lose
it, and particularly your brain, the more you use it the more brainy you become.
The Secret Method To Choose Lottery Numbers
Is there a secret? Read what the winners and experts have to
say:
Many people think it doesn't matter how you choose your six numbers, as any of
the 49 balls has just as much chance as any other of popping out of the lottery
machine.
This is true, but if you want to maximize your winnings when you do pick the
jackpot numbers, it pays to choose very carefully.
It could make the difference between, say, £20 million to
yourself - or sharing it with scores of others.
Just ask the winners of one of the early Lottery jackpots in 1995, there were
133 of them, all of whom chose 7, 17, 23, 32, 38 and 42, and thus won just
£120,000 each.
In 1998, a team of scientists at Southampton University revealed that the most
commonly chosen set of numbers was
7, 17, 23, 32, 40 and 42,
while the least common is
26, 34, 44, 46, 47 and 49.
So should you switch to this last set, if you want to maximize your winnings if
the number does come up?
Well, no, not now - because chances are that a lot of people already doing it
these days, thus ruining your chances of winning outright!
Some intellects had attempted to use the Gaussian curve method to produce an
average numbers, but the frequency of lottery ball number appearances didn't
give a bell curve.
(The 18th century German mathematician - Carl Gauss uses the bell curve,
known by scientists as the Gaussian curve, to reflect the fact that measurements
of, say the heights of many people will produce an average figure).
The best system for picking your numbers is no system at all - you should make
your selection as random as possible.
Using your birthday to choose numbers is not a good idea: after all, thousands
of other people were born on the same day, and they might be using the same
system.
Most people are hopeless at it, and produce selections with far too little
'clustering'.
Clustering is very common in random numbers; John Haigh of Sussex University has
proved mathematically that roughly half of all Lottery draws contain a pair of
consecutive numbers such as 15 and 16, yet most people avoid pairs and tend to
choose mostly low numbers.
In the end, the best way to generate your numbers is not to get yourself
involved at all.
Just let the national Lottery's own Lucky Dip random number generator pick
six for you.
Mantra: ‘You can't cure brain death but you can prevent
it.
What's the moral in these stories?
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