Re:South Africa's lottery probed as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 drawn
by BlackFingolfin on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:46AM
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According to a comment elsewhere in this HN discussion, it seems there are rather something like <200 draws a week. That gets us to just a 3% chance of this happening in a given year. That's still quite a bit more than one might intuit, but not quite as drastic.
Of course, as others here already pointed out that there are far more "suspicious" patterns (e.g. other arithmetic progressions like 5-10-15-20-25-30, primes, ...). And of course they often play by different rules, etc.
Of course, as others here already pointed out that there are far more "suspicious" patterns (e.g. other arithmetic progressions like 5-10-15-20-25-30, primes, ...). And of course they often play by different rules, etc.