Last year, Canada introduced a new lottery system used to extend permanent-resident status to the parents and grandparents of Canadian citizens. The process was designed to randomly select applicants ...

Hopes for a quick start to a state lottery ran into a skeptical governor- elect Bob Martinez, who wonders whether Florida should be in the business of promoting gambling. Lottery proponents, though, ...

Selling a lottery to Floridians would seem to be a fait accompli now that the issue has landed on the Nov. 4 ballot via a petition effort. In various polls, over the past several months, two out of ...

Canada’s family-reunification program is using a common spreadsheet application to select candidates as part of a process critics say is flawed and open to manipulation. As the first step in the ...

Fun with numbers. Voters have okayed a Florida lottery that probably will be in place this year. But just how will it work? Joseph A. Ellul, 67, of Palm Bay, has some ideas on the subject. He promoted ...

Whether you are generating lottery numbers or sample data for a survey, random numbers are easy to create in Excel. While ...