Number 10

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 10 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

• 1st smallest20 · chance 17.0
• 2nd smallest31 · chance 34.8
• 3rd smallest25 · chance 24.2
• 4th smallest7 · chance 7.1
• 5th smallest1 · chance 0.8
• 6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 12.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 35 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →