• SoftwareLotto.EXE: Special upgrades to the lottery utility software for 5, 6, and 7-number lotto games - June 2, 2009; important update on July 20, 2010.
• Special upgrade to the utility software for two-in-one (5+1) lotto games: Powerball, Mega Millions, SuperLotto, Thunderball, etc. - July 20, 2009; important update on July 20, 2010.
• Special lottery utility software for the 3- and 4-digit pick lotteries - March 29, 2009; important update on July 20, 2010.
• Special horse racing utility software for trifectas (triactors), pairings and exactas (exactors) - July 22, 2009; important update on July 20, 2010.
• Special lottery utility software for 5-digit Quinto lottery games - September 28; October 11, 2008; important update on July 20, 2010.
  Nota bene. There is a strategy error regarding the LEAST functions. Do NOT use the combination generators with the LEAST options in SoftwareLotto6.exe! Always press N or n to disable the LEAST options!

• An Old Lotto Strategy (1986): The Jackpot Oh-So-Close! - June 3, 2010.
  
  There have been questions in my forums (a message board hosted independently from SALIU.COM). Also, I've received questions from readers of my book. Why don't I present clearly and in detail that lotto strategy that hit a jackpot in 1986 (although was not played)? The detailed lotto strategy follows, plus instructions to apply it today.

• Reviews, Opinions, ForeWord Clarion: Ion Saliu's Probability Theory, Live! - April 25, 2010.
  
  Read a formal review of my book in ForeWord Clarion Review, kind of a little bible of the publishing industry. Then read a strong opinion regarding the Clarion review — kind of a short review of a review. You know, I like what they did…the ClarIon(s)! They chose a woman to review my book. She gave me an acceptable 2 of 5. Chances are, a man would have “rewarded” me with “zero out of five”! I'm not kidding! I am notorious for bringing out the worst in men! That really feasts my ego! I must be really good…I mean really great…if I make some men feel like dying out of hatred towards yours truly!

• My first book available now: Probability Theory, Live! - February 8, 9, 20, 24, 2010.
  
  I accomplished a great goal: I published my first book. The title of the book is Probability Theory, Live! Evidently, the book deals with theory of probability, a branch of mathematics.

  From the publisher's press release:

  Probability Theory, Live! * by Ion Saliu
  More than Gambling and Lottery — it's about Life!
  Publication Date: February 3, 2010
  Trade Paperback; $22.99; 315 pages; 978-1-4500-3734-1
  Trade Hardback; $32.99; 315 pages; 978-1-4500-3735-8
  

  To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7876.

  For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.

• Publishing My Works in Print - October 7; November 28, 2009.
  Ion Saliu started in earnest the enterprise of self publishing his major works in philosophy and theory of probability. The main method is via self-publishing book companies. Having a book in print helps a lot the cause of copyright protection as well. You get an ISBN (International Standard Book Number), registration with the Copyright Office, and registration with the Library of Congress.

• Long-Due Thanks to Loyal Friends - November 18; 19, 2009.
  It's been a long journey for yours truly, very relatively speaking. I have had the desire to make myself heard and seen since my early childhood. My parents told me that I was able to read and write since I was five years old, two years before I started mandatory education. My earliest memory — and one of the strongest — dates in the same month as this: November. But the year of grace was 1956, the time of the Hungarian Revolution. The Soviets had just crushed the anti-communist revolt. My parents and grandparents loved to hear me read the newspapers. The official publication of the Romanian Communist Party — Scanteia — had a huge headline and the photo of a communist leader labeled as "The Traitor" (Imre Nagy, I believe… I do not want to google now). We always had the doors locked and the blinds down while reading the newspapers! You never knew who could hear your comments. It was dangerous even for a kid to comment! I mean, the parents would suffer consequences…

  Some memories never die! And no Homo sapiens should die before her/his memories. For life without memories is like a Martian desert without winds.

  This on-the-edge-of-the-chair story ain't over yet. Matter of fact, a far cry from The End! To be continued… as of 11/19/XXIX…

• Blackjack, Basic Strategy, Card Counting; Charts & Tables; Probability, Odds, Rules - Updated December 29, 2009.
  To this date, the blackjack odds are the same as John Scarne calculated them in the 1950's. The computers back then were not the commodity they are today. And John Scarne was NOT a computer programmer! The way he calculated the odds made sense for the first two and three blackjack cards on hand. The game of blackjack, however, can have much longer hands: From 2 cards to 10 cards per hand (up to 11 cards for two or more decks in the game).

  Yours truly, Ion Saliu or Parpaluck, has finally emitted light on this dark matter. The odds (probability) for dealer's bust are (is) significantly higher. Instead of Scarne's 28%, the dealer bust odds fly to at least 41.97% (skyrocket up to 64.89%). That affects a player's outcome by a lot ... negatively speaking!

  The streaks will be worse for the player under these new circumstances (which I believe to be the correct ones). No wonder so many blackjack players are dismayed to hear that blackjack is almost a 50-50 game, if playing basic strategy! The players lose far more than the so-called mathematical expectation. I did hear casino players at the blackjack tables expressing anger after quickly losing all their chips. It was better to play roulette, some said. I certainly agree with them right now. The house edge at roulette is better than in blackjack! Yes, some will always stigmatize you: Roulette is a sucker's game! Not anymore!

  If you play blackjack, be sure to sit in last chair, just before the dealer. The more players at the blackjack table, the better you are. And be sure to chip in with at least the table's maximum limit (to withstand long losing streaks). Try to play no more than 100 hands at the same table (higher probability for shorter losing streaks). If you and I happen to be at the same table, be grateful and let me sit at the third base!

  No, the casinos couldn't resist reacting…once again! They should know by now that I don't get intimidated. Yet, they keep reacting every time I publish something of great importance. No doubt, my new research in calculating the blackjack odds of busting is ground-breaking. The new figures will surely have an impact on the game of blackjack. They even make me a criminal by association! They compare me to the criminals who become their own lawyers! You can read an hostile email I suspect originated in a casino highly paid office.

• The Universal Combinations Generator: Any Lotto, Powerball, Mega Millions, Euromillions, Keno, Horseracing, Two-In-One Lotto Games - October 27, 2009.
  Get free lotto and lottery software to generate combinations for all lotto, Euromillions, Powerball, Mega Millions, Keno games, horseracing. Generate combinations in lexicographic order for N numbers taken M at a time, in K steps, any rank or index. Specifically to this program, the combinations can be generated in steps. That is, the user has the choice to generate lotto combinations with constant gaps or skips between them. To my best knowledge, no other piece of lotto software can accurately generate universal N taken M at a time combinations. Most certainly, no other lottery program can generate lotto combinations in steps. Furthermore, this incredible program even generates lotto combinations within a range of numbers!

• Microsoft Windows 7: Computer Operating System Done Right - October 24, 2009.
  Microsoft Windows 7 was a much needed upgrade to Windows Vista. Windows-7 discarded the cumbersome features in Vista, thus resulting in a far superior computer PC operating system. Even one of my personal favorites was fixed: Show the underscore for the acceleration keys in menus and context-sensitive menus!

• Probability of Repetition: The Birthday Paradox Applied to Lotto, Lottery, Roulette - September 30, 2009.
  Ion Saliu discovered that the famous Birthday Paradox can lead to winning lottery, lotto, and gambling systems. It's all about the beginning of the game, accurate recording of data (trials, drawings, spins, etc.) and calculations of 50-50 chance for a repeat. See real-life cases in Pennsylvania lottery and Hamburg Spielbank (Casino), Germany.

• The Only True Bible of Blackjack Mathematics and Probability - August 31, 2009.
  To this date, the blackjack odds are the same as John Scarne calculated them in the 1950's. The computers back then were not the commodity they are today. And John Scarne was NOT a computer programmer! The way he calculated the odds made sense for the first two and three blackjack cards on hand. The game of blackjack, however, can have much longer hands: From 2 cards to 10 cards per hand (up to 11 cards for two or more decks in the game).

  Yours truly, Ion Saliu or Parpaluck, has finally emitted light on this dark matter. The odds (probability) for dealer's bust are (is) significantly higher. Instead of Scarne's 28%, the dealer bust odds fly to at least 41.97% (skyrocket up to 64.89%). That affects a player's outcome by a lot ... negatively speaking!

  The BJ dealer's bust probability had been calculated by the method known as guesswork. In strict mathematical terms, however, probability, p, is always calculated by dividing the number of favorable cases, n, by the number of total possible cases, N: p = n / N. New blackjack software precisely generates all favorable cases (busted hands) and all possible cases ... and then, some!

• Australian Roulette System, Piracy of Ion Saliu Systems, Software (Wheel Half, Sector, Hemisphere) - June 18 & 20; September 2, 2009.
  You might have read Internet ads such as: "Roulette System That Won Millions". There are YouTube shows as well! The roulette system in point (or collection uv roulette systems) is promoted by a gambling vendor (or a group of gambling developers) in Australia - GenuineWinner.com, RouletteComputers.com, HybridRouletteComputer.com. Da systems represent flagrant piracy of roulette systems and software I discovered as early as the year 2000.

  I did not discover that act of piracy on my own. It is impossible to know about everything that takes place in this world. I received inquiries, however, that raised the level of my curiosity. Then, a direct, blunt question: Was Ion Saliu behind that Down Under roulette system? Or did I license a group of entrepreneurs to market my strategy and software? Probably a user of the above roulette system ... guaranteed to win (or guaranteed to be an act of piracy!) It was clear to me that the gambler in cause was frustrated. The half-based roulette system does NOT work as advertised! You might not see a strong roulette wheel bias in a long, long time.

  Apparently, the law had its effects: The Australian roulette pirates got really scared! They announced at their website that they decided to stop selling their roulette system and roulette computers!

• Assaults, Threats against Mathematics of Gambling and Lottery - July 31; August 1, 2009.
  The mathematics of gambling and lottery is intensely assaulted and threatened. Even the federal court system is decidedly opposed to mathematics applied to gambling. Read an astonishing ruling of a federal appellate court that resembles the legal decisions favorable to mafia prior to 1980's, when FBI successfully put the mob out of business.

  Should In God We Trust Be on the U.S. Dollar Bill? - Ghuly 12, 17 & 20, 2009.

  Somehow I landed on the space of monosyllabic stupidity, Facebook (not on Twitter yet… perhaps never). People requested my approval to become friends on My Facebook. I clicked Yes for all out of convenience. One uvda new friends had experienced seizures. I wrote an article that brain seizures created the major religions of the world.

  The friends just posted on my Facebook without much control on my part. I still struggle trying to keep their monosyllabic garbage away from my space! The seizure lady, who had claims of being a prophet because of her unfortunate experiences, also participated in a Facebook poll. The topic of the poll: Should "In God We Trust" be taken off our currency?

  I did participate in the poll and discussion truly as a Ion Saliu! It is shocking to see how many persons are so dementedly struck by religious stupidity! But, then again, I understand best the whole process. It is all about Fear_Survival, the fundamental principle of life. After all, I was a very religious person, especially in my childhood and youth.

  Press Release: Zeno's Paradoxes Undeniably Solved For The First Time Ever - June 3, 2009.

  For more than two millennia, the paradoxes conceived by the Sophist Zeno (Zenon) of Elea were considered unsolvable: Impeccably logical arguments that lead to false conclusions. I solved for the first time ever Zeno's Paradoxes. I, Ion Saliu, discovered the first metaphysical or philosophical or logical solution to Zeno's riddles, or aporiae, or paradoxes. I applied the logical and mathematical method known as reductio ad absurdum. I demonstrated undeniably that Zeno's Paradoxes are absurdities. There is absolutely no logic to a Zenon paradox.

  A most philosophical piece of advice: Every human must immediately claim credit for what's legitimately his or hers. False modesty is a robbery tool manipulated by the lowlifes. There is no virtue in hiding the Truth and giving illegitimate credit to the undeserving. Truth is above anything and anybody. This rule is the most virtuous form of nurturing and feeding one's ego.

  Press Release: Mathematical Proof of the Absurdity of the God Concept - May 15; June 3, 2009.

  A mathematical formula based on logarithms now proves undeniably that the God concept is absurd. The formula I named FFG demonstrates mathematically that absolute certainty is absurdity. God's main attribute is absolute certainty: Nothing is absolutely certain, but Almighty God. Therefore, God represents absolute absurdity!

  The press release (May 15, 2009) has been published on a number of news services and websites. Among others: United Press International (UPI), CBS Broadcasting News, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, Kiplinger.com News, The Hollywood Reporter… Even religious organizations published the press release of the absurdity of the God concept: Religion News Articles, Religion PR News…

  Source Code for Software, Programs Created by Ion Saliu - May 15, 2009.

  Ion Saliu makes available the source code of some of his software programs. Programming language: BASIC, ready to run in PowerBasic Console Compiler.The software source code is available only to members with Permanent Membership. A Permanent Member will have access to this website for as long as it is alive! You will have unrestricted access to all resources here, including but not limited to, web pages and, especially, software, even source code.

  The Super Roulette Strategy: The Best Roulette Systems Ever Released = Now Free! - November 18, 2005; February 4, 2006; May 5, 2009.

  Updated software: SuperRoulette.exe, Roulette.exe, version 5.0. Possibly, this is the most advanced and promising act in roulette software programming. The new upgrade separates the roulette reports by the wheel type: Single-zero or double-zero. These programs perform multiple analyses of roulette spins: Real-life roulette spins from any casino or randomly generated roulette spins. The skips are calculated by the strict method of the Fundamental Formula of Gambling (FFG). The FFG skip is higher by 1 compared to the skip in the lottery software.

• How To Run LotWon Lottery Software At The Command Prompt In Windows XP And Vista - April 1+0; April 4, 2009.
  How to run the best lottery programs and lotto software at the 'Command Prompt' in Windows XP and Vista, including 64-bit. All the information needed for under-the-hood operating ... the operating system.

• Casino Winning Percentages in Atlantic City 2008 Beat Mathematics…Big-Time! - The Dawai Lama of Gambling, Marching 7, 2009.
  The physical casinos in Atlantic City record staggering winning percentages that defy theory of probability. Is this the effect of blatant cheating or the result of stupid gambling by most players? Bad gambling systems promoted by the casinos themselves, including card counting at blackjack? Tipping... way too much tipping, by gamblers during winning streaks? A combosnation of factors, to be sure...

• The Reasonable Limits to Debating and Arguing - January 24 & 27, 2009
  Debating and arguing are such favorites for humans! We've had to take the bad with the good. Humans can lose their heads due to debating or arguing in the worst places at the worst times. There is no debater in history greater than Socrates — He still lost his life in the land that gave birth to freedom of speech. The good: The enormous service debating has done to human advancement.

  There are reasonable limits to the debate and argument. There is a reasonable modality to debating and validating an argument.

  Results, Statistical Analyses for NFL, Powerball, Mega Millions, Pick Lotteries, Euromillions (Euromillones, Euromilhoes) - January 10, 2009 (2008 since tribunicia potestas).

  Posting the results (past drawings, scores) in NFL football, Powerball, Mega Millions, Euromillions, Euromillones, Euromilhoes. Covers also the pick-3 and pick 4 lotteries. Importantly, there are some meaningful statistical reports ranking the numbers by frequency, from hot to cold (applicable to Powerball, Mega Millions, Euromillions); the latest is the hottest; or, as they say, the trend is your friend, for it doesn't bend (too quickly, that is).

  The Official User's Guide To MDIEditor And Lotto WE - October 12, 2006.

  MDIEditor And Lotto WE Software: Tutorial, User Guide, Instructions. A comprehensive lotto and lottery manual.

  Visual Tutorial to Bright6.EXE and the Ultimate Lotto and Lottery Software - Ginuary 5, 2008.

  This is the book of Bright.EXE and the best-in-the-world software for lotto and lottery. The manual consists of a screen-by-screen tutorial. Applicable to the entire collection of Ion Saliu's gambling and lottery software.

• No lottery player should ever pay for drawings in his/her lotto games. The lottery results, drawings are available for free in many places over the Internet. Get right here your [pretty] fresh results in the hugely popular multi-jurisdiction lottery games Powerball (5+1), Mega Millions (5+1), Euromillions (5+2). Just copy and paste to simple text files, the ready-to-use format required by the most comprehensive lottery software application, MDIEditor And Lotto WE.
  • Powerball History File: Results, Drawings, Past Winning Numbers.
  • Mega Millions History File: Results, Drawings, Past Winning Numbers.
  • Euromillions History File: Results, Drawings, Past Winning Numbers.

  Lotto wheels for lotto games drawing 5, 6, or 7 numbers - May 29, 2008.

  The most advanced theory of lotto wheels or reduced lottery systems. Get also original lotto wheels for lotto games drawing 5, 6, or 7 numbers: Balanced, randomized, and free.
  • The myth of lotto wheels or abbreviated lotto systems - May 29, 2008.
    Statistical analysis of real lottery data proves the negative effect of playing static (ordinary, unbalanced) lotto wheels.

An inventory of free and outrageously priced roulette systems - May 18 & 24, 2008.
An inventory of roulette systems that only the casinos would be so fiercely aggressive and sell roulette and gambling systems priced from US $5000 (five thousand) to US $40000 (forty thousand)!

Download Great Free Software: Paid Membership Required - August 13, 2007.

I decided to enforce a form of paid membership for the glorious visitors who also want to download my free lottery, gambling and scientific software at Saliu.com.

The Main Categories, Resources, Links, Web Pages at saliu.com
- At-a-glance navigation facility; also, the HTML template that creates the web pages ~ August 5, 2007.

The content categories, directory, resources, principal web pages, software, systems. The content is related to lottery, lotto, gambling, science, mathematics, software, blackjack, roulette, sports betting, horse racing.

The Fundamental Formula Of Gambling (FFG).

Presenting the most astonishing formula in gambling mathematics, widely known now as FFG. Indeed, it is the most essential formula of theory of probability. This formula was directly derived from the most fundamental formula of probability: Number of favorable cases, n, over Total possible cases, N: n / N.
• The Occult Science Of Gambling - August 16 & October 25, 2004 (4 WE).
  • The Fear_Survival system never sleeps!
  Gambling is a branch of science: a part of mathematics and theory of probability. The occult aspect is caused by the absurdity of absolute certainty.

• Theory of Probability: Best introduction, formulae, algorithms, software - August 16, 2004; final version October 8, 2004.
  
  Theory of Probability: The best introduction to probability theory, formulae, software, algorithms, equations, calculations, probability problems, probability paradoxes.
  • Introducing Ion Saliu's paradox (problem) of N trials.
  • Mathematics Of The Fundamental Formula Of The Everything (FFG or why God hates Mathematics, while Einstein hates Gambling!) - March 9, 2005.
  • Mathematics Of The Monty Paradox; More On Ion Saliu's Paradox; "The Classical Occupancy Problem" - November 4, 2004.
    Probability theory analysis of various probability paradoxes or problems: Monty Hall Paradox, Ion Saliu's Paradox, Classical Occupancy Problem. Theory, formulae, free software.
  • Real life pairing and swapping are ruled by the hypergeometric probability! - May 10, 2004.
  Calculate the probability that NO man will be paired with his own wife in a swapping party; NO woman will be paired with her own husband. A lot more on hypergeometric distribution probability.

  • Mathematics Of Combinatorics:

  • Calculate, generate permutations (factorial), sets, arrangements, combinations (including Powerball), exponents for any numbers and words - August 17 & 19, 2003.
    Software to generate every possible form of sets, random or lexicographic: Exponents, permutations, combinations, arrangements, plus lotto, Powerball, Mega Millions, Euromillions, horses.
  • Lexicographic, lexicographical order, index, ranking, sets: permutations, exponential sets, combinations - August 25, 2003.
  Software to find the index, order, rank, numeral of sets: Exponents, permutations, combinations, arrangements, plus lotto, Powerball, Mega Millions, Euromillions.

• Standard Deviation: The Watchdog Of Probability (Random, Stochastic) Events - final version March 9, 2005.
  
  Standard deviation: Basics, mathematics, statistics, formula, software, algorithm. The most thorough analysis of standard deviation, variance, volatility, dispersion.
  • Thorough Analysis Of Standard Deviation, Variance, Volatility, Median, Mean Average - November 4, 2004.
  • Super Formula.EXE & FORMULA.EXE: The Definitive Statistics, Probability, Gambling Software - November 4, 2004.
    Programming 'Super Formula' software: gambling, probability, statistical calculations: standard deviation, binomial distribution, Gauss curve, normal distribution, odds, median, mean, average, sum.

• The Birthday Paradox: Combinatorics, Probability, Software, Pick 3 Lottery, Roulette, Social Security Number (SSN), Genetic Code - May 28 & August 16, 2004 — last update June 25, 2005 (5 WE).
  Software to calculate the 'Birthday Paradox': Probability that at least two persons share the same birthday. Analysis extended to many other real life situations related to coincidences, duplication, or collisions.

• POSTING SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY! - 07/18/01.
• Ban, Bar Some Visitors; Other HTTP Errors - Ion Saliu.

     
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