Dowat (pronounced "Do What?") is a DOS program that will predict random numbers. It has been implemented to pick the 3,4,5,6 and the Mega and Power Ball games. It is Shareware or "try before you buy" software and it costs $6.00(US). It has been tested against several of the commercial Lotto programs and it has done better at picking the numbers. The author would be interested in any information that would improve Dowat. Also, any Web designers or Windows programmers that would like to turn Dowat into a commercial venture would be welcome. To get a copy of this program you should
contact me and I will E-mail you the
zip file along with my contact information or download it from the link. I wish you the best of Luck with this program. I continue to run it myself for the various Lotto games.
I began working on
random numbers in the 1980's. First, I became interested in
Fractals and, in particular, the
Sierpinski Gasket. I imagined that the ancient Egyptians must have somehow discerned the Sierpinski Gasket in designing and building their
pyramids. I then noticed the similarity between the pyramids and the
Normal curve. All objects, if dropped randomly will form the shape of the Normal curve and random numbers can be computed to form a Sierpinski gasket every time no matter what numbers they are as long as they are random. Could it be that all things are nothing more than randomness forming Fractals? The
Grateful Dead wrote a song in 1970 called "Box of Rain" that seemed to musically ask that question. I became dissolutioned with the random number "lists" that were available on computers and studied several calculations for creating random numbers. Most notably, there was a calculation by
John Von Neumann. I eventually invented my own calculation for randomness. Now suppose we take a step back and question whether randomness, itself, is the result of some cosmic calculation that began with the
Big Bang. I believe that before the Big Bang there was no randomness and the randomness that we observe today is the result of dividing the
Unified Field. Having said all that,
Dowat is an attempt on my part to recreate the calculation that creates randomness by discerning it from the previous numbers.