Largest gap analysis
This is basically a subset of the good old Delta theory.
Here is the distribution of the largest gap for 1994 draws:
01 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 0.00%
02 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 0.00%
03 -- 001 times -- 0.05% -- 0.05%
04 -- 002 times -- 0.10% -- 0.15%
05 -- 016 times -- 0.80% -- 0.95%
06 -- 015 times -- 0.75% -- 1.71%
07 -- 037 times -- 1.86% -- 3.56%
08 -- 052 times -- 2.61% -- 6.17%
09 -- 077 times -- 3.86% -- 10.03%
10 -- 097 times -- 4.86% -- 14.89%
11 -- 120 times -- 6.02% -- 20.91%
12 -- 148 times -- 7.42% -- 28.34%
13 -- 189 times -- 9.48% -- 37.81%
14 -- 158 times -- 7.92% -- 45.74%
15 -- 166 times -- 8.32% -- 54.06%
16 -- 168 times -- 8.43% -- 62.49%
17 -- 120 times -- 6.02% -- 68.51%
18 -- 110 times -- 5.52% -- 74.02%
19 -- 097 times -- 4.86% -- 78.89%
20 -- 075 times -- 3.76% -- 82.65%
21 -- 067 times -- 3.36% -- 86.01%
22 -- 056 times -- 2.81% -- 88.82%
23 -- 040 times -- 2.01% -- 90.82%
24 -- 039 times -- 1.96% -- 92.78%
25 -- 035 times -- 1.76% -- 94.53%
26 -- 024 times -- 1.20% -- 95.74%
27 -- 031 times -- 1.55% -- 97.29%
28 -- 013 times -- 0.65% -- 97.94%
29 -- 010 times -- 0.50% -- 98.45%
30 -- 012 times -- 0.60% -- 99.05%
31 -- 003 times -- 0.15% -- 99.20%
32 -- 006 times -- 0.30% -- 99.50%
33 -- 002 times -- 0.10% -- 99.60%
34 -- 003 times -- 0.15% -- 99.75%
35 -- 002 times -- 0.10% -- 99.85%
36 -- 001 times -- 0.05% -- 99.90%
37 -- 001 times -- 0.05% -- 99.95%
38 -- 001 times -- 0.05% -- 100.00%
39 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 100.00%
40 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 100.00%
41 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 100.00%
42 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 100.00%
43 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 100.00%
44 -- 000 times -- 0.00% -- 100.00%
The first column indicates the largest gap, the second one the number of times it occured, the third one the percentage it occured and finally the cumulative percentage.
The smallest value (3) was obtained in draw #932 with numbers 11, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20 and the largest one (38) in draw #1521 with numbers 1, 4, 8, 9, 47, 48
So saying that with the largest gap of 12 or lower for a draw, the next draw will have one over 12 makes sense but whatever the largest gap is, in the next draw it wil be higher than 12 more than 7 times out of 10
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