Losfee (Lot Fairy), The Luck Number Generator
"Losfee" (Lot Fairy) generates in different ways random numbers for you. The presentation is "beamer-capable", because drawing is animated and the drawn numbers are displayed in a well legible table. The program operates comparable to a lot drum: All accepted numbers (the "pool") are put in a jar, to draw lots out of it. This ensures, that each number will be drawn only once in a pass. As option you can draw items out of a user-defined text file.
The generated numbers are instantly saved, that means, even in case of a power failure you can continue at the point, the drawing stopped (except lottery mode).
The random numbers are generated by a "mersenne twister". This method will reproduce foremost after 219937-1 steps (a mersenne prime number with rounded 6,000 digits) the same numerical order. The sun will be extincted, before this stream of numbers can be exhausted.
There are severals modes and options, to use "Losfee" for raffles, parties or simply for fun:
- Hand operated drawing of numbers out of a given number area
- Self-acting operation in an ajustable time intervall
- Anouncement for the next drawing event: Fixed time or Countdown
- Lottery Generator for many different lottery types
- Use a text file as input, to draw lines out of it
- A few visual effects during run
A full English Help is included.
