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Analytical Model of a Combinatorial Number Lottery

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The entire value of this book to even erudite lottery players is contained in two sentences found on the last few pages. The balance of the book is an obtuse, intellectual and proud of it mathematical proof which will lose 99.8% of readers within the first three pages. I'm a CPA with a serious interest in combinatorial math and probablity, but this work provided me with little useful information. Unless you are a mathematician with a very narrowly focused interest in probablity theory as it relates to ramdom occurance generator models, this book is a pass.

This book is really bad. I wish I had found the time to review it when I bought it - then I could have returned it for a refund. This book is full of mathematical jargon, and never does provide clear explanations or examples of how to apply what is discussed to a lottery. Someone would be better off with a good book on probability theory, and develope their own models than to try to read this book. Save your money - Do Not Buy this book.

If you are a lottery player looking for a book to provide you with guidance or strategies for playing lotteries then you need to AVOID THIS BOOK. If you happen to be a mathematician that wants to read 134+ pages of the author painfully detailing his mathematical model of a lottery then this might be your cup of tea. That this book is even remotely being marketed to the lottery player or the "average reader" as detailed in its editorial review is simply DEPLORABLE. The only portion of this book that would be of interest to a lottery player is the final couple of pages of the author's "treatise" where the reader is provided with a "basis for making an informed choice" when playing the lottery, the author's opinion on "so-called System Books", the author's view "About the Merits of Computer 'Picks'", and a blurb about the incredible odds that are against the player of a lottery. The "informed choice" and other stuff just mentioned is not that insightful nor helpful--certainly not worth the cost of the book! A funny story about this book: I was in one of those used bookstores, wherein people trade in their used books for credit towards other used books, and happened to see a copy of this book on the shelf. It was in perfect condition. Obviously, the original owner purchased the book, opened the book just once, saw all the mathematical symbols, maybe even tried reading a couple of paragraphs, closed the book, and traded it in as fast as they could. I laughed out loud when I saw it! Bottom line: a person has more of a chance of winning a lottery than this book has of being of any value (or read for that matter).

This book is published by Rutledge Books, a vanity press. Thatis, the author paid for the book's publication (It's a 160 pagehardcover). There is no index, and the short list of references, which cites an item in the Schaum's Outline Series, includes nothing more recent than 1977. There is much rigor here but no organization.

I would like to purchase this book, but would first like to know if it contains different combination of numbers, example, 12 numbers used 30 ways, or similar, or fifteen numbers different ways. Would appreciate an answer before ordering.

F. Miller - joyfar@cnwl.igs.net