Number 39

In New York Lotto under the 6/59 + 1/55 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2010 rules — 83 draws, 6 from 1–59 (an earlier era).

6times drawn · chance expected 8 −0.89σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 90% for any number

15.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

43longest completed wait · 5% chance of one at least that long

39 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 83 draws against 8.4 expected, −0.89σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 39, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 83 draws · average wait 15.8 draws · longest completed wait 43 · waiting 2 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 39 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 smallest1 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.0
4th smallest3 · chance 2.1
5th smallest2 · chance 1.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 16 19 22 27 48

Never drawn alongside 35 of the other 58 numbers; chance expects about 35 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 39 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th most popular of 59. 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 39 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2010-10-09	8	5th	8 13 15 16 39 53
2010-09-11	15	4th	8 16 37 39 45 48
2010-07-21	10	4th	22 28 35 39 52 55

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: 39 is drawn with probability 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.