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Pennsylvania Lottery Hits Number Oddity

PENNSYLVANIA – As reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "At the risk of prompting several dozen phone calls from conspiratorially minded readers ("I told you the Lottery was fixed!") we offer another entry from the state-sponsored statistical oddities category:

"The same four digits have hit in the daytime Big 4 lottery drawing in three out of the past four days.

"Yesterday, 5048 was the winning Big 4 number, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery Web page. On Saturday, 8504 was the winning number, and 5408 hit on Friday.

"Also, 4508 hit in the Aug. 9 midday Big 4 drawing.

"Lottery officials insist there's nothing fishy about the midday drawings, explaining to Tom Barnes, our Harrisburg bureau chief, that the winning digits are picked by one of two 'random number generators' -- basically, computers labeled "A" and "B" -- operated by one of 15 lottery staff employees. The computer that will draw the numbers on a given day is chosen by the flip of a coin.

"The drawing itself is monitored by a private auditing firm…"

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