%0 Journal Article
%T "Strange" occurrences in SuperEnalotto
%A Germano D'Abramo
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%X In this paper a way is suggested for calculating the probability of consecutive number strings within a sequence of n numbers randomly drawn (without replacement) among the set of the first N consecutive numbers, with N>>n. An explicit derivation is carried out for the special case of SuperEnalotto, nowadays the most famous lottery in Italy, with N=90 and n=6. It turns out that, on average, one every three drawings presents one or more consecutive number strings inside.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.2972v3