Fun fact! This of course extends to lottery numbers. So, you are exactly as likely to win the big prize with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 as with any other set of numbers.
People who feel very smart thus pick numbers like that and are happy to explain the probability analysis to you at length, and why you don’t need to pick random numbers.
Then people who are smart take into account that popular numbers increase your chances of having other people with same numbers as you sharing the prize, and they pick random numbers. :)
In the Norwegian lottery, an official at some point said that if the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ever got picked, so many people would have to share the prize that it would not be a noteworthy amount of money for each.
Fun fact! This of course extends to lottery numbers. So, you are exactly as likely to win the big prize with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 as with any other set of numbers.
People who feel very smart thus pick numbers like that and are happy to explain the probability analysis to you at length, and why you don’t need to pick random numbers.
Then people who are smart take into account that popular numbers increase your chances of having other people with same numbers as you sharing the prize, and they pick random numbers. :)
In the Norwegian lottery, an official at some point said that if the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ever got picked, so many people would have to share the prize that it would not be a noteworthy amount of money for each.