With this weekend’s Powerball Jackpot reaching $365 Million, who isn’t tempted to purchase a ticket or two. Let’s limit that question to those that are both geographically and physically capable of purchasing a ticket. I have never been a big lottery participant. When I do venture out to get a ticket, the troublesome task of picking the ‘winning’ numbers makes me sweat. I am a logical guy, and I try to come up with some sort of ‘logical’ reasoning behind my selection, which requires a lot of work. So, needless to say I always opt for the ‘quick pick’ route. That’s right, let the computer pick the numbers for me. Having a little extra time, after reading Marco’s book (for a second time) and having spent an abundant amount of time in Visual Studio in the past few weeks, I decided to whip something up with my favorite IDE. The results: a ‘Random Number Picker’ (notice the logo). Click here for the results.

This random number picker (I am not looking for any debates on the randomness of the numbers) allows you to enter the number of numbers you would like returned as well as the upper and lower bounds of the numbers returned. If you want more of a ‘most popular’ number, each number’s percentage and number of times listed is also displayed.

There are a couple additions I want to make over the next day or so, like an option to allow duplicate numbers or not – (hey, some lotteries allow it) and formatting for my browser of choice - FireFox (it looks fine in IE). After that I will post the source up.

If anyone else has any suggestions pass them along…..

Oh, and use of the random number generator for lotteries or any other ‘thing’ does not guarantee or increase your chances of winning anything. It is intended to be just one other way for me to pick numbers….

‘Random Number Picker’

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