Can anyone help me out with a quick program ? Don't mind if its an Excel macro or VB app or whatever.

I need a program that can generate 25 unique lines of lottery numbers from the specific 25 numbers that I specify.

Can anyone help ?

 

That's just permutations and combinations. No probs.

Get this straight: 25 numbers in and 25 unique lines out using only the inputted numbers?

 

Thanks Fosters but I've done it now. Thanks anyway

 

tough, I'm writing one anyway!

 

Cool. Might be better than my DOS app
Let me know how u get on

 

DOS app?! what r u like!

 

U done it then Fosters ?

 

I finished my version, unfortunately it's quite slow because it works out all the permutations of 25 numbers over 7 ***** or 25_p_7, which is 25!-(18!*7!) the 7! being for any ball order.
That's 15511177775367509114880000.

What I wanted to write was an app that would give you the choice of covering any or all your 25 numbers. It does seem that after about 10 ***** covering all the perms, you would be rich enough not to need to buy lottery tickets in the first place

I'll dumb it down a bit. It was a good crack tho.

I'm one of those geeks that writes stupid software... because I've never written it before, eg; encryption, raytracing, calculating PI, etc...

 

Turns out that there are 177,100 different permutations of 25 chosen numbers. Found a neat little program that allowed to you specify a range of numbers to include and also exclude specific numbers. It then generates possible permutations checking first that they have not already been produced and outputs then to a file
. You can produde as many results as you want and very quickly

Clever stuff