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Originally Posted by Mustang
Actually, you would need 5 numbers from each block of 15 (1-15, 16-30, etc)
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I considered this at first, but for the purposes of figuring out the probability, does it really matter where the numbers are? Someone can (and will) correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd think that probability neither knows nor cares what the numbers are. We're just taking a set of numbers and finding out how often they come up in a bigger set. Whether that set is 5 numbers from blocks of 15 or just the numbers 1-24 in order, I don't think it makes a difference.