{"id":1324,"date":"2004-05-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2004-11-14T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T03:24:37","slug":"that-gun-gave-up-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"that gun gave up smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.use4.com\/lotto\/\">Dave Muse thinks the Michigan state lottery has a mechanical bias favoring smaller intervals<\/a>. (Cited by Jon Handler.) So I wrote a short program that generates all C(50,6) = 1589&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;0700 possible lottery draws and counts the resulting intervals. The distribution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1324\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}