How large does the sample need to be to become suspicious? I would have thought "all lottery draws ever" should be a large enough sample? — CuddlyHedgehog
Because it's never happened. — CuddlyHedgehog
My stats is definitely a bit rusty, but at 45 million with a confidence level of 95%, I think it comes to 600. Are you sure there's not been any non-random sequences? — Pseudonym
But there is something different about them: they are much less likely to occur than non-ordered ones.But the ordered sequences are man-made and arbitrary, there is nothing different about them to any other sequence. — CuddlyHedgehog
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