that gun gave up smoking

Dave Muse thinks the Michigan state lottery has a mechanical bias favoring smaller intervals. (Cited by Jon Handler.) So I wrote a short program that generates all C(50,6) = 1589 0700 possible lottery draws and counts the resulting intervals. The distribution that Muse found surprising is, ta-da, very close to what my program predicts. The bias, if any, is small.

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