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by is_true 641 days ago
There are private APIs that have that data (now and history)

Do you think the official data published is 100% correct if they were trying to hide something?

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I am honestly not certain why they obstruct easy access to the number history. It's obviously accessible, but only through manually parsing the PDF. Their prior embedded search function, approximately two years ago, would return all permutations of the queried number from day 1 to present. They modified it to exclude results more than two years old. The PDF contains the entire data set, but isn't searchable. Why? Dunno. But I'm cynical

I've also compiled a list of all numbers that have never occurred, count of each occurrence and a lot more. My anomaly analytics have included everything, as an ignoramous, I can throw at it; chi squared; isolated forest; time series; and a lot of stuff I don't properly understand. Most anomalies found have been, if narrowly, within expected randomness, but I intend to fortify my proddings eventually. Although I'm actually confident I'm barking up the wrong tree, the data obfuscation is objectively dubious, for whatever the reason.

I've worked in the field and it could just be that the developers in charge of the new site didn't know/care how to get the data from the old system.
Old Hanlon's razor. Maybe, but I'd rather assume malice when it comes to Florida Lottery