Lottery Tools

The first record of a Lottery game was around 200 BC, during the Han Dynasty in China. At various times throughout history, lotteries were used as a means of raising money for defense or to fund a war effort. In fact, the Continental Congress used a lottery to raise funds to fight the Revolutionary War back in 1776. In every case, as long as the game was fair, every player had the same chance of winning. But, historically, the games weren’t always fair. As a result of this checkered past, lotteries were outlawed in the US for many years. Then in 1964, New Hampshire created the first lottery of the 20th century. This begins, what has been called, the modern era of the lottery.

Lotteries have now become so popular that they have spread around the world to nearly every country. People the world over love the lottery and ticket sales number in the Billions each year. And with this growth, we’ve witnessed a cultural phenomenon. Historically, cultural changes evolved slowly over centuries. But, no longer. Within the span of one lifetime, the world has gone from no computers to nearly everybody having access to a PC. This has serious implications for our society overall, but my focus is the lottery.

Some people still rely on their reasoned beliefs that were formed before computer power was available to them. Many old well reasoned ideas and beliefs, have not kept pace with the rapid advance of technology. Many old beliefs have become myth and fiction. Old truths have transitioned to lies, cultivated by misconceptions and misunderstandings. Old ideas and thinking die hard. It’s time to reevaluate the validity of old beliefs in the revealing light of the computer age.

In the old days, no one had access to a computer, but, today, your PC has more computing power than an IBM 360 mainframe computer had in 1965. It would be simply naive to assume that a computer and some good Lottery Tools could not shed some light on our favorite, mathematically rich pastime; the lottery.

That’s the topic of my next post.

Tags: Lottery, Lottery Tools //