I was thinking about doing another log entry about Lottery systems, and the probability that certain groups of numbers will come up, so as to take a closer look at certain types of problems, like what is the actual probability that someone's birthday will come up, on any particular Lotto type game, as well as the more general problem with respect to the probability that any particular set of 2, or even 3 numbers might come up, like 3 and 14, of course. Yet that leads to the more general problem of "how long will it be on average for 3-14 and 15 to come up", depending on the number of balls in the particular game, and the number of numbers picked in a particular draw. But that will have to wait. Maybe I will write a short C++ program that prepares a chart for the waiting time for each variation, with fans of e = 2.71828, which can be played on a Lottery as 2-7-18-28, along with "whatever" taking the absolute longest, that is, besides matching all five or six numbers, according to the game.
Instead, I want to look at something else, something that is, that I hope we can get some help with, that is, in the realm of "vibe coding," perhaps.

Yet if in the previous example, I was thinking about how the phrase "I LOVE A MYSTERY" might encode the sequence 5-8-30-14, or else the phrase "I LIVE OUT MY DREAMS" might encode the set 5-8-13-14-30, it is easy to see that neither of these came up on the California Super Lotto last night, even if the five and eight did, but oh so sorry, no 13, and no 14, no hidden pi, or any pie for that matter to be had. No pi, pie, too bad so sad, and better luck next time?
Or else wait a minute. I didn't even play the Super Lotto last night, and not just because I am not even in California right now. At least the 5 and 8, and then I noticed something that I find interesting, nonetheless. Something that fits in nicely with my examples "DOWN THE PRIMROSE PATH", "DOWN THE HATCH", "DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE" and of course "DOWN THE DRAIN" and that would of course also mean that I should have mentioned something along the lines of "DOWN BY THE RIVER SIDE" as an example of something that can be, and perhaps should be done when we have "lists of words" that we somehow "need" to use in a sentence, or in a composition, as a whole, and where we need to be a bit more flexible with word order, or else when we need to accommodate the need to have an occasional word or phrase inserted into the response.
So I spotted something, something kind of fun, since I was working on a meme that begins with 5 and 8 representing the word "LOVE", yet what about "FLOWERS" which encodes the sequence 8-5-40, which of course does not work, with last night's Super Lotto, yet "A FLOWER WILTS!" does encode the sequence 5-8-45-10. Just as easy to think of as the "easy e = 2-17-18-28", and just as hard to predict, of course!
A flower wilts.
A flower wilts when it has no water.
A flower wilts when it has no air.
A flower wilts in one year!
A flower wilts.
Ah poetry! Using "random numbers as seed values!"
Easier said than done?
Q.E.D
For now!
glgorman
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