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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by jon-wood on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @12:56PM (#25279149)
Exactly the same as for any other sequence of numbers.
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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by ptaipale on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:02PM (#25279220)
Which is 1 : 42,375,200.

However, the probability of ending up with a sequence like this is still quite low - probability of coming up with six consecutive numbers is 40 : 42,375,200 i.e. less than one in a million.

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Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn by ptaipale on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:08PM (#25292238)
Correction: as pointed out, the sixth ball is picked from range 1-20, which more than halves the probability to less than one in 2 million.
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