Destined to be together
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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.
My parents, both born about six weeks apart in 1929, married in 1950 and are still together. Before they married, there was no obvious connection between their two families.
They have consecutively numbered birth certificates!
This resulted from each of their mothers registering their births on the same day, at the same registry office in Nottingham, one after the other.
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:44:00 +0000Coincidence ID:7626
