all the eights
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
On 8 August 1988 we set out in the car and noticed that the mileage read 8,888. That gave us 8,888miles on 8-8-88; it is something I have reminded my family of many times since then whenever we talk about coincidence
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:33:14 +0000Coincidence ID:4000
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