Re: Lottery drawings and sensitivity to initial conditions

On 2008-02-16, Robert Martinu <invalid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> The added gravity of the visitor would have some impact on the
> lottery mechanics - determinating if this influence changes the
> outcome would depend on how stable the original solution was.

Lottery drawings are designed to be exceedingly unstable.  Here they
tend to involve many thousands of ball-ball collisions as well as
turbulent airflow.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if they magnified
even single atom changes up to affecting the final outcome.


- Tim