Consecutive integers or numbers are the numerals that continuously follow each other, one after another in a regular counting order as in the order from smaller to larger. 32 and 33, then 19 and 20, finally 13, and 14, all of the winning numbers from the Mega Millions lottery had one thing in common, they were all pairs of consecutive integers. In the new age of search engine algorithims and artificial inteligence should we see these kinds of patterns in what are suppose to be randomly selected numbers? When we play Mega Millions we are asked to pick six numbers between one and seventy with one number not exceeding twenty-five as the Mega Ball. With the modern technology of today we can even ask AI the question “How are the mega million winning numbers chosen?” and here is the answer: ChatGPT states that “the Mega Millions winning numbers are chosen using a process called random number generation. This process involves the use of a computer program that generates a set of random numbers, which are then used as the winning numbers for each drawing. The program is designed to ensure that the numbers are truly random and not influenced by any outside factors. Additionally, the numbers are chosen from two separate pools of numbers, one for the white balls and one for the Mega Ball, which further increases the randomness of the process.”
Most people probably assume that ChatGPT is correct in its assertion that the Mega Millions winning numbers were randomly generated, but AI fails to mention any of the cases of lottery-rigging scandals in the past in its answer. Random number generators have been rigged recently in the Hot Lotto drawings in Iowa ($14.3 million), Colorado ($568,990), Wisconsin($783,257), Kansas ($16.5 million), and Oklahoma ($1.2 million). Considering the Mega Millions payout of $1.58 billion is much larger than anything in the Hot Lotto cases, ChatGPT probably calculated that no one would try to rig it.
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