How to pick a random number from 1-10
> The easy thing to do is to ask someone “Hey, pick a random number from 1 to 10!”. The person replies “7!”.<p>Seven factorial is way bigger than 10. Just kidding, sorry.<p>But what I was actually going to say was, when I read the title of the post, before clicking through, I decided to think of a number myself and I chose the number seven. So it was fun to see that same number in the article.<p>10% chance in theory and in reality it’s about 25% likely for someone to pick the specific number I did. If only the odds in the lottery were this good.<p>Why, by the way, is it that seven is so popular?