Date coincidence
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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.
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I gave a Maths talk on the 100 Prisoners Problem and prepared a Powerpoint for the talk. On the opening slide, instead of writing the date, I noticed that the next day would be 14th March, or Pi Day, and so I wrote "The Day Before Pi Day".
A few months later in the same year I was asked to give the same talk. This was possibly only the second time I have given this talk formally to a large group. I decided to update the Powerpoint, and, naturally, this included the date. I would be delivering my second and last official talk on this topic on 27th June, the day before the 28th June, 2*Pi Day!!
What are the chances of that?!
Date submitted:Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:27:24 +0000Coincidence ID:8131
