Virbatem
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Equipartition pertains to equilibrium or the commonly held but false belief that (in the realm of random numbers) eventually all the occurances of every number will balance out or catch up.
For example, a few numbers have been drawn a mere 100 times over a 1000 draw lottery while at the other end of the scale, a few numbers have been drawn 140 or more times.
Those who hold the belief that those few low appearing numbers will soon have a long run and catch up to the frequency of the more comonly appearing number will be waiting a long time.
Several in-house tests and reference to two different lotteries have shown that numbers which have multiple appearances within the first 15 to 20 draws remain the most frequently draw numbers.
ref: http://www.peterwebb.co.uk/probability.htm#Equipartition
Further testing has revealed the following results which list how many times each number has been the most frequent over 900 lottery draws for a 6/45 game.
Number - Most frequent - Occurances
#19 - 453 - 136
#41 - 167 - 129
#08 - 149 - 139
#25 - 58 - 139
#29 - 48 - 120
#07 - 14 - 133
#01 - 5 - 132
#26 - 3 - 135
#44 - 3 - 113
#33 - 1 - 128
#27 - 1 - 109 *
#05 - 0 - 133
: - : - :
#13 - 0 - 104
#19 was the most frequently drawn number; 453 times over 900 draws from a 6/45 lottery. Its total times drawn was 136.
#19 was drawn 3 times in the first 6 lottery drawings and 4 times in the first 15 draws.
Conversely, #13 was not drawn until the 29th lottery draw and after 900 draws has appeared the least number of times for all 45 numbers.
Please note there is ALWAYS an exception to every rule and #27 is the exception here.
Next time the top 6 numbers from the list all have a skip period nearing 6 I am going to play them. If I do not comment on the result then I suggest you get pen and paper and try it yourself as I will be on a tropical island somewhere....
For example, a few numbers have been drawn a mere 100 times over a 1000 draw lottery while at the other end of the scale, a few numbers have been drawn 140 or more times.
Those who hold the belief that those few low appearing numbers will soon have a long run and catch up to the frequency of the more comonly appearing number will be waiting a long time.
Several in-house tests and reference to two different lotteries have shown that numbers which have multiple appearances within the first 15 to 20 draws remain the most frequently draw numbers.
ref: http://www.peterwebb.co.uk/probability.htm#Equipartition
Further testing has revealed the following results which list how many times each number has been the most frequent over 900 lottery draws for a 6/45 game.
Number - Most frequent - Occurances
#19 - 453 - 136
#41 - 167 - 129
#08 - 149 - 139
#25 - 58 - 139
#29 - 48 - 120
#07 - 14 - 133
#01 - 5 - 132
#26 - 3 - 135
#44 - 3 - 113
#33 - 1 - 128
#27 - 1 - 109 *
#05 - 0 - 133
: - : - :
#13 - 0 - 104
#19 was the most frequently drawn number; 453 times over 900 draws from a 6/45 lottery. Its total times drawn was 136.
#19 was drawn 3 times in the first 6 lottery drawings and 4 times in the first 15 draws.
Conversely, #13 was not drawn until the 29th lottery draw and after 900 draws has appeared the least number of times for all 45 numbers.
Please note there is ALWAYS an exception to every rule and #27 is the exception here.
Next time the top 6 numbers from the list all have a skip period nearing 6 I am going to play them. If I do not comment on the result then I suggest you get pen and paper and try it yourself as I will be on a tropical island somewhere....
