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_ __ ________
/ | / \ / ______/ MacCash
/ | / \_____________ / / ________ Version <<VERSION>>
/ /|| //| |\ ___________/ / / / ____/ __
/ / ||// | |_) \ / / / /\ \ \ \ Ran out of
/ / |_/ | ____ \ / / / /__) \______) \ birthdays?
/ / | | \ \_______/ (_________/ ______ _______ \ Use MacCash
(_/ |_| \_____________________/ \ \ \ \ to generate
________________________________________________) \ \ \ your lottery
(___________________________________________________) \_) numbers.
1. Introduction and Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The (British) National Lottery has really caught the publics imagination.
But after the initial frenzy of picking six birthdays, ages or house numbers
have you ran out of numbers. MacCash can generate the numbers for you. These
numbers will have just the same chance of winning - 14M to 1 though.
MacCash can also statistically analyse the numbers (so you can make up a
formula :) and print out the numbers. For a while in the earlier releases
MacCash also printed out the actual coupon but this was inacurate (and
pointless?), It will probally will be added again in the future.
Note: MacCash is only really usefull for the British National Lottery. If
you live in an other country I recommend that you take a look at DiceRoll.
DiceRoll is a random number generator that can generate numbers upto any
limit and any number of them. It can be found in misc/misc on the aminet.
2. Usage
~~~~~~~~
MacCash can be used from the Shell and Workbench. Version 2.04 or greater
of Workbench is of course required. One argument is supported from both the
Shell and Workbench, this is PUBSCREEN and it specifies the public screen
that MacCash will open on.
Once you have launched MacCash you will see a window with a main list,
which shows all the boards and numbers, some integer gadgets so that you can
change the numbers and some buttons which allow the random numbers to be
generated and cleared. The use of these gadgets is fairly intuitive. (Don't
worry about the "Number of draws" gadget, it is fairly pointless now since
the coupon printing has been removed.)
The "Statistics for Board" button will show you the standard deviation,
mean, median, range, interquartile range and variance for the current
board.
The "Print Numbers" menuitem will print out the numbers of used boards.
3. Contact and #?Ware
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you win the lottery using numbers generated by MacCash then I would
appreciate it if you gave me 2% of the winnings (not on £10). Or you could
send me a couple of pounds just now to show your thanks.
All correspondence should be sent to the following address:
Lee Kindness,
8 Craigmarn Road,
Portlethen Village,
ABERDEEN,
AB1 4QR.
email:
wangi@fido.zetnet.co.uk
4. Disclamer and Distribution
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The author assumes no responsibity for the performance of this program.
You agree by using the program to accept all errors that may be present
(MacCash has been well tested with Enforcer though)
This program can be freely distributed if all contents are included and
only a nominal distribution charge is paid. MacCash can be included in a
commercial distribution (inc. mags) only after constent of the author.
The author must be consulted before any commercial usage (ie. being used
to generate thousands of coupons for a syndicate).
MacCash is Copyright ©94-95 Lee Kindness.
5. Version History
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1.0ß1 : 05.12.94
+ Randomally picks 6 numbers and prints them to the Shell.
1.0ß2 : 08.01.95
+ GUI added, can now pick all five boards.
1.0ß3 : 10.01.95
+ Now prints the lottery coupon!!
1.0 : 12.01.95
+ Nolonger prints coupon, was to inacurate, fiddly to set up, pointless
and generally more bother than it was worth.
+ Integer gadgets working.
+ Added stats (Standard deviation, mean, IQR...)
1.1 : 13.01.95
+ Removed minor bugs.
1.3 : 09.07.95
+ Now has 7 board support.
+ Nolonger ejects a page after printing.
6. Bye!
~~~~~~~
LSK _\\// Good luck