[time-nuts] are any time-nuts also random-nuts?

[J. L. Trantham]

You were least likely to be drawn was on the first draw.  Thereafter, you
were progressively more likely to be drawn next.  

As best I can tell, February 29 was only represented in the 1970 lottery and
the 1976 lottery.  The lottery went from 1970 through 1976 and the highest
lottery number required to report was 195 and that was the first year.  It
was 125 the next year and 95 every year thereafter with induction ending in
mid 1973.  February 29 was 285 the first year and 195 in 1976 so these guys
apparently never went as best I can tell from the information I can find.

If my information is correct, February 29 was represented in 2 of 7
lotteries and the other 365 days were represented in 7 of 7 lotteries.  So,
perhaps, February 29 was slightly disadvantaged but they came out ok.

Joe

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Subject: Re: [time-nuts] are any time-nuts also random-nuts?



There was an inequality in the Vietnam draft lottery.

Your chance of being born on February 29, 1 in 1461.

The chance of February 29 being chosen in the lottery, 1 in 366.



Scott Newell wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 12/24/2009, J. Forster wrote:
> 
> That reminds me...one of the footnotes in Wolfram's "A New Kind Of
> Science" mentions that there was some non-randomness in a Vietnam era 
> draft lottery:

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