Mr Robert Austin
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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.
Today I activated the e-mail from the British Museum in London which they sent me as a week ago I became a 'friend of the museum'. This activation resulted in their sending me another e-mail with a password they described as temporary and suggested should be changed by me. This temporary password consisted of 7 characters (digits and letters). It was the same as the password I would have selected as the 7 character password for this specific organisation/situation. I say this as I have a password 'system' to help memorise them and the system requirements were fully met. As there are 10 diigits, 26 lowercase letters and 26 uppercase letters what were the chances? Is it 7 factorial x 10 x 26 x 26 = 34,070,400?
Date submitted:Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:10:34 +0000Coincidence ID:6078
