Number 6

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 6 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 smallest10 · chance 0.0
• 2nd smallest51 · chance 15.7
• 3rd smallest117 · chance 117.9
• 4th smallest115 · chance 157.1
• 5th smallest37 · chance 39.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 146.7 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 9 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →