Number 8

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 8 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 smallest54 · chance 0.0
• 3rd smallest272 · chance 0.0
• 4th smallest766 · chance 825.8
• 5th smallest766 · chance 1032.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 825.8 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 →