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		thedufer on May 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets Interestingly, this means that common "lucky" numbers are actually unlucky, to a degree inversely proportional to their perceived luckiness across the population.

ufo on May 7, 2012 [–]

I remember hearing a story once about six people that shared a lottery prize because they used a number from a fortune cookie.

thedufer on May 7, 2012 | [–]

Six people? Try 3,100 when the number 7-7-7-7 came up.

Source: http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-04-02/news/27060744_1_l...

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