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?

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Is there a name for offset correlated data? 

For example

a:=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2]:
b:=[5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,2,3,4]:

Correlation(a,b)
                            0

However there exists a correlation of -1.000 only 4...

How do I test a variable against itself to see if it has a value or not?

As an example

p1:=sin(x)
p2:=46

[seq(`if`(p||i=p||i,p||i,NULL),i=1..5)]  # when p||i actually equals p||i and not some value ie sequence should not include p3,p4 and p5

 

How many randomly ordered signals are required until we achieve a chaotic signal, or one that is undistinguishable from being random? Another way to put it, although not a good example, is if we had an infinitely large room full of people talking, what is the minimum number of people needed to be to make the noise appear random? Of course making a few unrealistic conditions such as the volume of each persons speech is heard at the same level and pitch no matter their distance...

I suppose this should belong in a blog or a post but it's more of a question because I don't present anything, but I merely pose an interesting question and wondered if anyone was up to the challenge.  This is also related to Deconstructiong a wave http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/124373-Deconstruct-A-Waveform-Into-Its-Fundamental

Recently I read an interesting...