by Jerzy » Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:33 am
Stan and Alcymart,
Using the combinations with randomly arranged (unsorted) numbers would create entirely different game, which would make a lot of existing filters, particularly positional filters, completely useless.
And because the package of possible tickets would be many times larger than the package with sorted numbers, processing such package would be much more demanding for the computer and for the user. Consequently, the processing time would be much longer, taking days or weeks.
An example for 6/45 game:
There could be 8,145,060 standard combinations with numbers arranged in ascending order in each combination.
But for the same game there could be 5,864,443,200 combinations, if the numbers in combinations are arranged randomly, in any possible order.
For 6/49 game the package of possible combinations with randomly arranged numbers would be much larger.
Maybe there is something to achieve by analysing the combinations with numbers arranged as they were drawn ( I do not know) but how can we work with packages of 5,864,443,200 or more combinations ?