Number 45

In Lotto under the 6/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015 rules — 601 draws, 6 from 1–45 (an earlier era).

81times drawn · chance expected 80 +0.10σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

33longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

45 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 81 times in 601 draws against 80.1 expected, +0.10σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 14 times, counted separately.

Number 45, draw by draw

Drawn 81 times in 601 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 33 · drawn in the most recent draw

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 45 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest81 · chance 81.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 12 30 4 1 6

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 45 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 45 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2015-10-03	7	6th	1 15 17 31 36 45
2015-09-09	7	6th	2 6 21 26 43 45
2015-08-15	14	6th	3 4 22 33 37 45
2015-06-27	31	6th

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 45 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2014-02-05	1	6th	9 10 30 35 39 45
2014-02-01	2	6th	14 29 30 33 36 45
2014-01-25	7	6th	1 4 10 20 30 45
2014-01-01	1	6th	8 14 22 31 42 45
2013-12-28	7	6th	6 7 16 22 40 45
2013-12-04	9	6th	13 16 31 43 44 45
2013-11-02	12	6th	1 7 20 25 33 45
2013-09-21	7	6th	4 27 37 39 40 45
2013-08-28	3	6th	22 34 36 40 44 45
2013-08-17	4	6th	4 11 16 33 43 45
2013-08-03	1	6th	8 16 23 30 38 45
2013-07-31	3	6th	5 6 25 28 38 45
2013-07-20	18	6th	12 18 24 29 34 45
2013-05-18	2	6th	3 6 10 30 37 45
2013-05-11	2	6th	10 21 25 28 34 45
2013-05-04	7	6th	12 16 18 21 31 45
2013-04-10	11	6th	6 7 13 34 44 45
2013-03-02	17	6th	5 8 9 30 33 45
2013-01-02	13	6th	2 8 16 18 30 45
2012-11-17	18	6th	4 11 17 28 39 45
2012-09-15	15	6th	11 25 27 28 35 45
2012-07-25	10	6th	31 34 39 42 44 45
2012-06-20	3	6th	15 31 35 38 40 45
2012-06-09	3	6th	13 17 26 33 36 45
2012-05-30	4	6th	12 15 17 30 33 45
2012-05-16	10	6th	6 7 28 30 35 45
2012-04-11	2	6th	7 26 31 33 42 45
2012-04-04	6	6th	5 7 23 26 31 45
2012-03-14	3	6th	3 7 26 30 39 45
2012-03-03	8	6th	12 13 25 36 41 45
2012-02-04	11	6th	7 9 12 25 27 45
2011-12-28	4	6th	3 4 16 19 37 45
2011-12-14	16	6th	1 10 12 27 29 45
2011-10-19	4	6th	12 18 21 25 38 45
2011-10-05	7	6th	5 8 19 31 34 45
2011-09-10	3	6th	1 10 32 35 39 45
2011-08-31	33	6th	4 15 23 24 26 45
2011-05-07	3	6th	7 12 24 36 43 45
2011-04-27	3	6th	5 18 30 41 44 45
2011-04-16	6	6th	11 17 20 28 36 45
2011-03-26	2	6th	15 21 23 25 44 45
2011-03-19	5	6th	2 12 31 37 39 45
2011-03-02	9	6th	9 27 31 39 42 45
2011-01-29	12	6th	8 21 38 41 42 45
2010-12-18	9	6th	4 8 12 18 35 45
2010-11-17	1	6th	4 15 16 33 42 45
2010-11-13	8	6th	10 11 36 40 42 45
2010-10-16	4	6th	1 13 15 24 40 45
2010-10-02	2	6th	1 3 24 32 33 45
2010-09-25	7	6th	2 4 6 15 25 45
2010-09-01	1	6th	3 4 19 37 38 45
2010-08-28	9	6th	13 23 30 37 43 45
2010-07-28	16	6th	4 8 9 20 21 45
2010-06-02	3	6th	11 27 35 37 44 45
2010-05-22	14	6th	6 21 26 27 31 45
2010-04-03	22	6th	14 24 26 40 41 45
2010-01-16	—	6th	4 13 16 19 30 45