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Non Life Sciences => Geek Speak => Topic started by: syhprum on 16/06/2012 08:22:15

Title: Is roulettebot plus biased?
Post by: syhprum on 16/06/2012 08:22:15

This organisation claims to offer one an automatic gambling program that makes you money by exploiting defects in random number generators.
This sounds like a very dangerous scam to me but I would like views as to if such a thing would be possible. 

Title: Re: Roulettebot plus
Post by: Bored chemist on 16/06/2012 13:15:04

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

On the other hand it's unlikely that an on-line gambling site would use a generator that was biased enough for you to be able to beat the odds.

Title: Re: Roulettebot plus
Post by: RD on 16/06/2012 14:28:29

Quote from: syhprum on 16/06/2012 08:22:15

This organisation claims to offer one an automatic gambling program that makes you money by exploiting defects in random number generators.

The fact someone is offering such software for sale means it doesn't work.
If it worked as advertised why sell this software to make money, the creator could use it to milk the casinos dry.

It's a popular type of scam : googling "lottery+prediction+software" gets over a million hits.


Scratch-cards aren't really random so are a different matter ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginther-won-lottery-4-times-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html

But again, if anyone worked out the pattern they wouldn't broadcast that information.