----------------------------------- Paul Mon Feb 09, 2004 11:33 pm [source] Paul's New and Improved lotto 6/49 ----------------------------------- This is an assignment for compsci class, lotto 6/49, with no duplicate numbers and stuff. Ignore the first part, with the lines, Im just doing that cause I saw it somewhere else, and wanted to try it, Im prolly gonna do something with that later on. I'll add bmps at school maybe, cause I don't want to transport them. This is the basic program, all drawn lol. I think this is THE biggest program (in terms of lines) I've ever had to work on. And Im trying to use more procedures, also to comment stuff, since I lost marks last time cause of that :(. Oh yea, its really hard to win, if you win, you can win the real thing :D. oh and if you cheat, the program fails. I made this in about 3 to 3.5 hrs, including dinner :D. Enjoy :D Oh, and you may have click "click here to see results" for a second. Edit I added some bmp's to decorate it and make it look nicer. and added another bug proof. ----------------------------------- Cervantes Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:54 pm ----------------------------------- Looks pretty good. you need to add some more error proofing in the part where you enter your number. I.E. make it so that you can't enter 'q'. :eh: I really like the aesthetic appeal. good work! ----------------------------------- Paul Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:55 pm ----------------------------------- aesthetic appeal. good work! aes-the-tic? what is this word? oh yea, I did forget to do that letter-number error proofing, was concentrating on no duplicates. Thanx ----------------------------------- Delta Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:55 pm ----------------------------------- HAHA I love the pics... make them jpg tho... good job man... I think that you should make a little thingy on the side that shows the balls shuffling and them one rolls out and the number pops up on it... or it all ready on it... rotating :) look into the Pic.Rotate command and have some fun :) +BITS ----------------------------------- Cervantes Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:19 pm ----------------------------------- aesthetics -----> how it appeals to the senses eg. A chair's black leather looks nice :) ergonomics ---> how it preforms its duty eg. a chair's back support so aesthetic appeal, good work! means I like the pictures and the buttons and the colours :) ----------------------------------- Paul Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:27 pm ----------------------------------- Thanks :D I always try to incorporate the gorilla into my programs in someway, I also just learned strintok from Dan... which Im going to put into this program now.... and done. ----------------------------------- jonos Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:50 pm ----------------------------------- wow, nice program, im starting to have feelings for that gorilla, beautiful specimen. i couldn't win so i gave up and decided to write this at the urging of the creator. +bits though i need some myself ----------------------------------- Andy Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:18 pm ----------------------------------- lol u noe... if u just posted an exe, you could've made it so that u lose every time... like have it pick numbers that is guranteed not urs ----------------------------------- Paul Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:19 pm ----------------------------------- Theres no point to that, if you win here, you could win the real lottory, I haven't even got more than 3 matches yet. ----------------------------------- Andy Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:21 pm ----------------------------------- but think of it this way, since ur not winning, the probability of u winning nxt time would be greater and will increase until one day u do win... or you could think of it as if u do win on here, you've wasted a real shot at winning the real lottery instead of this cheapy fake one ----------------------------------- GUI.GetScrollBarWidth : i Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:07 pm ----------------------------------- nice program, it should gt me an A, just kidding ----------------------------------- DragonSlayer Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:55 pm ----------------------------------- good program but u should make it so that u can see what numbers u picked while ur still picking other numbers good stuff ----------------------------------- Cervantes Sun Feb 15, 2004 11:00 am ----------------------------------- Let's shed some light on lotto 649. (49*48*47*46*45*44)/(6*5*4*3*2*1) That works out to be 1 in 13 983 816. let's round that to 1 in 14 million :eh: So the chance of winning paul's program should be 1 in 14 million if he did it right. If you DO win his program, then the chance of winning the REAL lotto 6/49 is STILL 1 in 14 million. take a die. you're try to get a 6. You roll it and you get a 6. The chance of that was 1 in 6. You roll it again and get another 6. The chance of getting that second 6 regardless of the first roll is still 1 in 6. However, the chance of getting 2 6s is 1 in 36. So winning the lottery twice in a row is 1 in 195 547 109 921 856. AKA 1 in 195.5 trillion :P --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- if you win here, you could win the real lottory if you don't win here you could win the real lottery as well. ----------------------------------- recneps Sun Feb 15, 2004 1:31 pm ----------------------------------- Nice Job on that, would give bits but dont have many lol