Skip to content
The beaver is a proud and noble animal

The beaver is a proud and noble animal

Notes from a bemused canuck

  • Home
  • About
  • Bookmarks
  • Pictures
  • Resume
  • Wine
  • Random Recipe
  • Toggle search form

Euromillions follow-up

Posted on September 22, 2009 By admin

As a follow-up to this post, I found out why the same numbers were always coming up. It has to do with the sorting of the numbers and the distribution it produces.


(right-click and save image to view it at full resolution)

In a nutshell, if you simulate 1,000,000 lottery tickets and plot the frequency of the sorted numbers at each position, you get the graph as above. Increasing the number of simulated draws just improves the normality of the distribution at each position.

Not rocket science, but still a pretty picture :)

  • Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads
  • Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
  • Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
uncategorized Tags:geek

Post navigation

Previous Post: Christmas displays should not be legally allowed to be put up in September
Next Post: What I want for xmas

Related Posts

  • Eeeelehvun geek
  • Hell is the Semantic Web dealing with idiots
  • I neeeeed to code an Easter egg geek
  • How auto-correct can make your life interesting… geek
  • Wow! where did all my money go? geek
  • Yomigaeru Aiyan Sheffu! geek

Power to the beaver!

Show me the beaver!
September 2009
M T W T F S S
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930  
« Aug   Oct »

Quote of the day

"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS," he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE."
--Death is obviously not a dog person (Terry Pratchett, Sourcery)

Random Posts

  • As if that’s not horror movie material
  • More fallout from that stupid, xenophobic vote.
  • Reason #425,896 why I don’t want to go to the US anymore
  • Traffic jam in the bathroom
  • Now that was a good meal
reading leopard

Tags

bobble the little blue owl boobies brought to you by the fda cats chonk christmas comics computers are evil covid-19 dealing with idiots dilbert dog ducks galleries geek god bless the land of the free holidays house I am Canadian land of cheese and chocolate linked news lolcat london news from the stupid not my dog nsfw pets pictures potd2014 qotd random shit re-member recipes relationship shrill slice of life stress Tao the british way The Peanut things i miss travel video wine work

Archives

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Copyright © 2026 The beaver is a proud and noble animal.

Powered by PressBook Premium theme