Publications by Patrick Ford

UK Lottery Predictions

18.03.2025

Introduction The UK National Lottery draws 6 numbers per game. Originally, from its inception until October 10, 2015, numbers were drawn from a pool of 1 to 49. After that date, the pool was expanded to 1 to 59 to accommodate changes in the game structure. ‘UK Lottery Predictions’ claims that by selecting numbers from a reduced pool of 32 speci...

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Analysis of Consecutive Numbers in Lottery Draws

13.03.2025

Introduction This report analyses consecutive number patterns in a data set of UK national lottery draws from 19-Nov-1994 to 12-Mar-2025, containing 3,049 draws. Each draw includes six main numbers (N1 to N6), a bonus number (BN), and metadata such as date, jackpot, wins, machine, and set. The focus is on identifying and interpreting the frequency ...

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Analysis of Pork Prohibition in Religious Texts

08.03.2025

Background Both the Quran and the Bible prohibit eating pork, with the Old Testament (e.g., Leviticus 11:7-8) and Quran (e.g., Surah 2:173) labeling it as “unclean”. This has led to speculation about whether health risks, like parasites, and poor animal husbandry practices in ancient times were factors. Health Risks and Historical Context Tric...

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Ramadan

08.03.2025

Key Points Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by over 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide through fasting, prayer, and reflection. Fasting (sawm) is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, mandatory for adult Muslims who are physically able, requiring abstention from food, drink, and other physical needs from dawn to sunset. Exceptio...

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Lent

05.03.2025

Fasting and Abstaining During Lent: A Comprehensive Guide Key Points Lent is a 40-day period before Easter where many Christians practice fasting and abstaining to prepare for the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. Fasting typically means eating less food, while abstaining often involves giving up specific foods like meat, with rules varying...

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Winning with changing EV: Normal and Roll Down Lottery Scenarios.

04.03.2025

Lottery Roll-Down Mathematics: Winfall Lottery vs. UK National Lottery Introduction In the movies and real life, there have been cases where savvy players identified opportunities to profit from lottery roll-downs. One famous example is depicted in the film Jerry and Marge Go Large, which was based on the real-life story of Jerry Selbee exploitin...

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Winning Small

19.02.2025

Lottery Roll-Down Mathematics: Winfall Lottery vs. UK National Lottery Introduction In the movies and real life, there have been cases where savvy players identified opportunities to profit from lottery roll-downs. One famous example is depicted in the film Jerry and Marge Go Large, which was based on the real-life story of Jerry Selbee exploitin...

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Didactic Paradoxes Observed in the Management of Euclid's Theorems

18.02.2025

# Load necessary libraries pacman::p_load(pacman, ggplot2, igraph, dplyr, readr) # Load datasets paradox_data <- read_csv("paradox_data.csv") ## Rows: 7 Columns: 2 ## ── Column specification ───────────────────────────────────────────────────�...

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Douay-Rheims Bible: Sentiment Analysis (a)

27.01.2025

Load required libraries pacman::p_load(pacman, tidytext, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, readr, topicmodels, udpipe, gridExtra, wordcloud, RColorBrewer, quanteda, quanteda.textstats) Load the CSV file bible_data <- read_csv(“Douay_Rheims_Bible2.csv”) Rename columns colnames(bible_data) <- c(“Book”, “Chapter”, “Verse”, “Verse_Text”) Ad...

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Douay-Rheims Bible: Sentiment Analysis (b)

27.01.2025

Load required libraries pacman::p_load(pacman, tidytext, dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, readr, wordcloud, RColorBrewer, udpipe) Load the CSV file bible_data <- read_csv(“Douay_Rheims_Bible2.csv”) Rename columns for easier reference colnames(bible_data) <- c(“Book”, “Chapter”, “Verse”, “Verse_Text”) Bigram Analysis Tokenize into bigr...

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