Shared Anniversary

As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.

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 girlfriend of 5 years, now unfortunately ex-girlfriend and I were shopping for anniversary presents a few years back for our respective parents. We realised that they were married on the same day of the same month. Later when we got home and spoke to them, we realised that not only was it the same day and same month, the the same year also! This was despite their age gap of around ten years and being from opposite ends of the country - made remembering the date easier anyway
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:35:36 +0000Coincidence ID:3859