odds against wining the lottery

[Tiberius]

No I don't, but when I did I picked non-consecutive numbers, mainly because I simply liked the numbers or they were relevant to me. Like I said, people are pre-disposed to certain things, and we tend to think (wrongly) that some number sequences are less likely than others. Putting it like this though, it makes you think: A consecutive sequence is only meaningful to us because we put meaning to the numbers, and that meaning is order. A random lottery machine knows nothing about the numbers (it has no idea there are even numbers on the balls) and it has no pre-disposition. If it were to think, it wouldn't put any difference between the numbers 1,2,3,4 and the numbers 23,4,8,17.