Imagine you have a bag of marbles, half red, half blue. If you randomly pick one out many times and write down the colors in order, sometimes it looks like there's a pattern: red, red, blue, blue, red, red... even though each choice was completely random. This is what happens with random number patterns, they can look surprising, but they're just part of how randomness works. It’s like the marble bag gives you a little surprise every now and then.
Examples
- Picking marbles from a bag and seeing red, red, blue, blue over and over
- Flipping a coin ten times and getting heads, heads, tails, tails
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See also
- Why Do Patterns Appear in Random Numbers?
- What are law of large numbers?
- What are stationary distributions?
- What are number shapes?
- What is random?