I'm with you, he makes no sense. In a 5 bit binary string there are 32 possible ways to sequence the 0's and 1's.
00000=0 to 11111 = 31. I think he's trying to make the point that just like in a coin toss the next value could be
either heads or tails and the outcome has nothing to do with what came before it, Bravo. The lottery is not truly
random, it's sufficiently random which is something else. In lottery games random is limited to the order of numbers
being drawn. For instance, in a 5-39 matrix the first 5 numbers drawn are what counts. If the drawing was allowed
to continue then all 39 numbers would be drawn and everyone would be a winner. If the game was truly random
then any value could be drawn. Lotteries are closed systems as in my 5-39 the number 40 can't be drawn. Knowing
this allows us to calculate the odds. The odds express possible outcomes for any number or set of numbers being
drawn in the next game. The odds don't restrict anything within the realm of possible outcomes, they are simply a
general set of expected frequencies. Some lotteries use PRNG's to draw the numbers for each game and it's very
hard to produce a sufficiently random set that does not have some sort of relation to past draws however slight the
relation might be. Again to gain any advantage one has to extrapolate a frequency for some value. Will our best
guess be correct, who knows. Johnny rain clouds love to sing the I can't do it so neither can you song. We get rid
of one and another pops up. I guess it makes them feel useful somehow.
RL