If all the balls 1 to 49 have equal chance of coming out, why should each combination of six numbers not have equal chance of occurrence?
A. This is where the probability that you learn at school fell apart. It is not adequate to explain the complexity of this system. Each number does have equal chance of occurrence initially but once one has come out, the probability of the rest changes. You cannot really calculate the true probability of this system until all the balls has come out. This is because when all the six number combination has come out, you can then calculate which sum came out. Then you can find out how many combination of that sum exist before you can calculate the probability of winning with that sum. This system has what I will call a dynamic probability. That is a probability that changes almost instantaneously, as the event is occuring. There really is no probability in existence until the numbers has been put in order.
