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Powerball Generator!
09-23-2024, 03:52 PM
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(09-23-2024 02:04 PM)lrdheat Wrote:  The Texas lottery has 6 non repeating integers chosen from 1 through 54. There are 25,827,165 individual combinations of those numbers available, 1 of which is 1,2,3,4,5,6. Each of the combinations of 6 numbers from 1,2,3,4,5,6 up to 49,50,51,52,53,54 has the same chance of occurrence. It is true that sub classes of interesting sets composed of consecutive numbers is small compared to the large number of sets with uninteresting, seemingly patternless random look to the numbers. Yet, each particular set of 6 has a 1 in 25,827,165 chance of being chosen, at which point it becomes quite interesting!

I think where we are being bogged down is with the word “particular”. Yes, it is true that any combination can occur, but one in which the numbers are consecutive is less likely than one in which they are not.

I don’t believe that there have been enough lottery draws recorded to be statistically significant, however.

Maybe this can help to explain it?
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