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Old 03-07-2016, 01:43 AM
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Gary,

This is Lotto not Scratchies


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Originally Posted by gary View Post
Hi Leon,

Indeed, the chance of getting six consecutive numbers is equal to getting
six non-consecutive random numbers.

Imagine rather than having to pick numbers you had to pick tokens such
as animals. For example, "lion", "cow", "horse", "rabbit", "snake", "frog" and
so on.

Since there is no order to animals, for example, a "cow" is not logically
consecutive to any other animal, then the illusion of six consecutive
animals being picked does not exist and is the same as six random
animals.
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