I got into probability and combinatorial mathematics through curiosity more than anything else. The work of Blaise Pascal, Pierre de Fermat, Gerolamo Cardano, and Renato Gianella gave me a framework for asking a question I kept coming back to: how do lottery outcomes actually behave under truly random draws, and what can math tell us about them?
That question led me to develop a combinatorial partitioning system that divides a lottery's number field into four categories (LOW-ODD, LOW-EVEN, HIGH-ODD, and HIGH-EVEN) and uses those divisions to analyze how combinations are distributed and how different combinatorial compositions behave over time under the law of large numbers. You can read more about this partitioning system in my paper The Insufficiency of Single-Dimensional Combinatorial Analysis in Lottery Number Systems: A Case for Four-Set Partition.
I put the research online in 2017, free to access. Over the following years, readers from around the world wrote in asking for clearer ways to apply the math. That feedback pushed me to build the Lotterycodex calculators in 2019. The goal was to handle the heavy calculations and present the results in a way that did not require a math degree to follow. No prediction. No claims about controlling outcomes. Just the math, presented without hype.
A few things worth knowing about me: I am not a professional mathematician, and I do not actively play the lottery. By training and trade, I am a full-stack web developer with over ten years building and maintaining backend and frontend systems in PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and Vue.js. That background shapes how I think about mathematical models and what they can and cannot reliably tell you about numerical outcomes.
Outside of work, I am usually with my family. We like picnics near the beach, chess, badminton, and long walks. Nothing complicated.
I write and publish under the pen name Edvin Hiltner.
I want to be transparent about how this site works and who it is built for. Everything published on Lotterycodex.com follows a truth-first, math-first approach. The Lotterycodex publishing policy covers who I write for, why I write, the methods and tools I use, my diversity policy, and why I do not use AI in my lottery calculators.