Sorry that this may not belong here but I thought I would ask, it is interesting.
Now I'm not asking for the winning numbers list but rather the numbers chosen by people (the thousands of non winning ticket numbers per game) Is there a database somewhere we can access that stores the list of picked numbers? It would be interesting to find out how randomly people pick numbers, do people flock to certain numbers more often than others?
I think it was mentioned before, but people tend to pick birth dates as numbers, so that would confine a lot of their picks to numbers between 1 and 31. Not that they would restrict the 6 numbers to between 1 and 31 but without factual data, we can't use maple to put that to the test.
Some people replay the same numbers all the time, some pick at random before getting a ticket, and some buy a ticket then randomly choose from the layed out box. That brings another question to mind, does the layout of a set of 49 numbers have an effect on which numbers you choose? (ie would you choose them differently if they were layed out in a single row of 49 numbers?)
