1,286,785,937,500 Combinations.

Re: 1,286,785,937,500 Combinations.

Postby tdnl46w » Tue Jun 10, 2025 1:27 am

pyst7lot wrote:
stan wrote:
NOPE. I just can't see how to reduce a package which doesn't already exist. Help.

To iterate the full wheel you don't need to read the combinations from a file on the disk - you can (the software can) generate them on the fly and pass them to your filter. Thus you will save to disk only the tickets that meet your filter conditions.


Would it be too much to ask for a 'step by step' explanation. Tdnl46w, does any of this make sense to you?

In the “Run” window of the complex filter,...Stan is referring to using a “Full Wheel” instead of what is in the current “Package”. When using this option, I’m guessing it will insert a specified amount of tickets into memory(maybe using the settings in; Tools> Options> Miscellaneous> Execution tab> “Number of tickets to process in memory: [x]”), then check them against the filters, and mark the tickets that passed. The process then repeats for the next tickets inserted into memory. This way the program doesn’t have to check files on a disk or store anything on a disk until the filtering is finished. However, depending on the filers used, the filtering results from a one trillion combination lotto can still be multiple gigabytes or more in size.
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Re: 1,286,785,937,500 Combinations.

Postby pyst7lot » Tue Jun 10, 2025 2:52 am

Thanks tdnl46w. I guess I'll need that new computer now. :)
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Re: 1,286,785,937,500 Combinations.

Postby pyst7lot » Tue Jun 10, 2025 5:00 am

FWIIW, I have already found (on a smaller scale) a use for this. :)

I decided I wanted to treat our 6 from 40 plus 1 from 10 Powerball game as a 7 from 50 game with Powerball numbers being 41 to 50 instead of 1 to 10.

Would have had to build a 99 million line package and reduce it before I knew this.
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