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I ran a Monte Carlo Octave function
to investigate occurrences of sequences of 2 numbers in a row and,
occurrences of round numbers (10,20,30). In a million sets of 21
rows of five numbers between 1 and 35 inclusive, I got 2784 cases in
which there were exactly 2 round numbers and only 133 cases in which
there were exactly 2 sequences of 2 numbers in a row. In 0 out of a
million cases there were both 2 or fewer round numbers and 2 or
fewer sequences of 2 numbers in a row. The first set given in this
thread met both of these conditions.
Richard Tarara's hypothesis that the students that produced the
student-generated set of values would tend to shy away from
sequences of numbers in a row, and mine that they would shy away from
round numbers could be exactly wrong.
if someone offered you a million dollars to correctly pick the
student-generated set
Can you tell which list is the student's list?