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"The fact that the combination was in a specific pattern and did not appear to be a random combination of numbers could also factor into a calculation of the odds, he added."

Hehe. I guess he'll have to produce a list of non-random numbers to work those odds out.

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Reminds me of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

I suppose the smallest random number is also not random :)

Randomness produces patterns all the time, and if we cut out the patterns that appear, then we are selecting the pattern that we’ve labeled as ‘random.’

Humans are terrible at selecting truly random numbers so if the combination was picked by a person, and people who were guessing were also people, then I would say that the odds are significantly better that the safe would be cracked than what you would expect from calculating the permutations.

I think it was a joke. What would it mean to produce a list of non-random numbers?

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