2nd Try-Game Solver/Zero Sum Games

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OpenMinded — Wed, 12 May 2004 09:21:28 GMT

Thanks, Colin F.

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Colin F — Wed, 12 May 2004 07:25:07 GMT

OpenMindedI take pride in having an Open Mind and being a Free Thinking type person. However, on some things given the facts I just have to draw a line and say that's not possible. A popular notion is that we can converse with people from outer space. If we consider the distance to the nearest Star of a brilliance similar to our own Sun and with a planet at a similar distance from it as our Earth then we are talking of a time gap exceeding that from now to the time of the dinasoars to receive a... [ More ]

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RJOh — Thu, 06 May 2004 21:16:21 GMT

Quote: Originally posted by OpenMinded on May 06, 2004 To be quite honest, my visits here had began to decline because of the wishy-washy, most times boring, things being discussed. When an idea goes from wishy-washy to a clear thought, it can be more easily proved true or false. If it is true and can add value to someone's lottery playing, I hope posters will be willing to share it rather than incorporate it into a system or softwares package and licenses its use.Many wishy-washy ideas are p... [ More ]

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Todd — Thu, 06 May 2004 17:45:56 GMT

OpenMinded,Excellent, glad to see you're starting things off here. I have the DVD of A Beautiful Mind, but I haven't unwrapped it yet. I think maybe I'll do so soon.One of the great things about the lottery is that there are so many perspectives. What you term wishy-washy , others take as gospel truth. (And vice-versa

2nd Try-Game Solver/Zero Sum Games

OpenMinded — Thu, 06 May 2004 17:13:24 GMT

I posted this topic before under the Lottery Discussion section of this site. I received a lot of views, but not one post. I've been slightly hinting on, since being on this site, my ideas of the lottery being a mathematical game. The reason I say hint is because, when mentioning it once, I was shot down by one saying that the lottery was not a game of math, but of probability and randomness (or something along that line - as best that I can remember). I applaud Todd for bringing this topic... [ More ]