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Originally Posted by PeteLFan
If that's really how the lottery works that seems overly complicated for no apparent reason.
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You have to make lottery systems fairly complicated to ensure that odds are, in fact, as advertised.
Computers are lousy at generating random numbers, humans are much much worse even than that.
You have to have some kind of mechanical system, balls in a drum works pretty well. After that, you have to develop a system for the balls that can sets the percentages where you want them. It's also probably not truly random enough to have too many balls in the drum, that's why you don't just throw 1000 balls in the drum.