Number 3

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 3 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

• 1st smallest104 · chance 88.6
• 2nd smallest13 · chance 27.7
• 3rd smallest1 · chance 1.7
• 4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
• 5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
• 6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 15.5 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 38 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →