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From satellites to the London Olympics, all in one career

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September 2008
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coincidence

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How likely is that?

Tags: statistics : probability : risk analysis : Average : mean : coincidence : rare event


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Life is full of coincidences, but how do you work out if something is really as unlikely as it seems? In this article Rob Eastaway and John Haigh find chance in church and work out the odds.

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Coincidences are familiar to us all but what are the so-called laws of chance? From coin tossing to freak weather events, Geoffrey Grimmett explains how probability is at the heart of it all.

Tags: actuarial mathematics : randomness : birthday problem : coincidence : Kolmogorov's axioms of probability theory : coin-tossing : run of heads or tails