![]() ![]() ![]() “The numbers themselves couldn’t have been more meaningless,” he says. Instead, he categorized each number according to its frequency, counting how many times a given number showed up on a given ticket. ![]() In other words, he didn’t look at the ticket as a sequence of 72 random digits. Srivastava’s startling insight was that he could separate the winning tickets from the losing tickets by looking at the number of times each of the digits occurred on the tic-tac-toe boards. And a few numbers appeared only once on the entire card. Perhaps the number 17 was repeated three times, and the number 38 was repeated twice. As a result, some of these numbers were repeated multiple times. (Srivastava would later teach it to his 8-year-old daughter.) Each ticket contained eight tic-tac-toe boards, and each space on those boards-72 in all-contained an exposed number from 1 to 39. ![]()
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