A loaf of bread
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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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We were living on a boat in Singapore. We had been cruising in the Far East for five years. Fed up with pirates and immigration we decided to return to Europe? But where? Not cold-clouded England after our years in the tropics. I went shopping and bought a stick of bread. It had a scrap of torn newspaper wrapped around it to hold it by. Back on board, I looked at the paper. It was an advertisement for an Estate Agency in Andorra in the Pyrenees, advertising an exhibition and sales promotion in a Singapore hotel. I went and collected brochures. Andorra did not require a visa – no problems with Immigration! We sailed back to the Spanish Mediterranean and I have been an Andorran citizen for the past ten years. Serendipity, but only because I went to the presentation.
Date submitted:Fri, 16 Mar 2018 13:14:14 +0000Coincidence ID:9930
