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Has anyone ever analyzed the distribution of past lottery numbers for randomness?

• stonemetal 13y ago
  On the Texas lottery site they list counts of how often every number is picked. It wouldn't surprise me if other state lotteries were similar.
  • fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
    Correct, you are. http://txlottery.org/export/sites/lottery/Games/Lotto_Texas/Winning_Numbers/lottotexas.csv http://txlottery.org/export/sites/lottery/Games/Lotto_Texas/...
    • stefap2 13y ago
      there is a sudden drop in frequency of numbers above 48
      • stonemetal 13y ago
        Numbers above 48 were added after the program had run for a few years. I am not sure if they changed providers or just the program but they went from a straight pick 6 to a powerball setup with a different number range. It is easy to see they didn't reset the stats when they made the change because the "mega ball" count is much lower than the regular number count.