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we expect random events to be evenly distributed, so statistical clumps surprise us. We think that a ‘typical’ lottery draw is something like 5, 14, 27, 36, 39, 45, but that 1, 2, 3,19, 20, 21 is far less likely. Actually, these two sets of numbers have exactly the same probability,
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