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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

1,2,3,4,5,6 would occur with the same frenquency as any other set of numbers in a truly random draw.

That is about 1 in 140,000,000 times.


23 posted on 10/19/2005 9:00:12 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Graybeard58
1,2,3,4,5,6 would occur with the same frenquency as any other set of numbers in a truly random draw.

Wrong. It doesn't have the same probability as other sets of numbers. This set of numbers is too far out of the mainstream of lottery drawing sums to ever be drawn. If you study the sums of lottery drawings you would see a bell curve. The sum of 1-2-3-4-5-6 is the lowest (and only) set of numbers that adds up to 21 (same holds true for the last six numbers of any lottery game) In fact, it has never been drawn in any state or international lottery since lotteries came into existence.

And lottery numbers are not randomly drawn. Sooner or later a bias occurs in which some numbers have a better probability of being drawn than others. Some people handicap lottery numbers just as do horses or greyhounds in races or stocks in the market.

32 posted on 10/19/2005 9:09:03 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed)
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