Number 36

In Daily Million Plus 2pm under the 6/39 + 1/38 · Apr 2016 – Jul 2016 rules — 86 draws, 6 from 1–39 (an earlier era).

7times drawn · chance expected 13 −1.86σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 37% for any number

11.2average wait between appearances · chance says 6.5

16longest completed wait · 40% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 86 draws against 13.2 expected, −1.86σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 86 draws · average wait 11.2 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 7 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 36 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest2 · chance 2.2
6th smallest5 · chance 4.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 7 11 12 13 15

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 38 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd most popular of 39. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2016-07-12	10	6th	7 13 25 30 34 36
2016-07-02	16	6th	12 13 23 26 29 36
2016-06-16	15	6th	12 15 20 23 30 36

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 36 is drawn with probability 6/39 tonight whatever it did last week.