I'm sat here just checking my bank statement online. It shows that last Saturday I went to Sainsbury's and spent £16.74. That afternoon I then went to Lidl and spent .....£16.74! What a strange coincidence!
one in ten thousand I think
so that the expectation of finding one in a run of a ten thousand entries - is ....one
BUT - the proper mathematicians will come along soon
You wouldnt write in if one day you drew out £50 and the next day you few out another £50 ! hey look they are the same !
so the figures arent randomly distributed
s/o else can have a go .......
The A666, Blackburn road, Notlob by-pass, sat in traffic on numerous occasions. Oddly I never heard it referred to as the Devil's Highway, the one I recall is Death Valley on the M62 from Swinton, a horrible stretch of road.
The odds of what ? That it ever occurred ? That it occurred to you ? That it occurred that particular afternoon ? That you found something at sometime surprising enough to start a thread on ? Depending on what you want the odds for the value can vary wildly from dead cert to ∞ to 1.
Last week I saw eight cars in a row that were black. I checked the figures on car colours and as 20% are black it appears the chances were something like (1/5)⁸ which is around 1/390000. Of course I have not remembered the other millions of times in my lifetime when nothing remarkable occurred in terms of colour sequences. (Apart perhaps from the time I say seven black cars in a row, also on the same stretch of road outside the crematorium.)
Million to one chances happen all the time of course somewhere to someone- winning the lottery for example.