A few years back, the Quebec Lottery published its most frequently played numbers. It seems the original press release has been lost to the sands of time, but IIRC 1,2,3,4,5,6; 1,7,13,19,25,31; and 4,8,15,16,23,42 were the most common sequences (corresponding to the top row of the play slip, the first column of the play slip, and the mystical numbers from the TV show Lost, respectively).
Oh, and if you're interested in digging more, in my experience, the Texas lottery is quite forthcoming with their open records; you could probably find out what's popular in 2022.
If you were presented with two array of integers:
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- 95, 10, 39, 45, 6, 47
...which one would you say it's random?
Still, from a frequentist point of view both are.
Where's my mistake?
"Martin-Löf's key insight was to use the theory of computation to formally define the notion of a test for randomness."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequenc...
(now famous for type theory, Per Martin-Löf did Probability Theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Martin-L%C3%B6f#Randomness...