Lucky ticket!

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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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My two sons - one in the army, one at university - arranged independently to got to a pop festival a couple of hundred miles away, each with their own friends. They both had the tickets sent to my house. The student set off a day early to stay with friends but realised as he arrived that he'd forgotten his ticket! He rang me and I was able to locate the ticket and give it to the soldier in the hope that they'd meet up. No need to worry, as they both turned up at the same gate at the same time before they'd had a chance to arrange anything!
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:03:06 +0000Coincidence ID:4860