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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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I was on holiday and had run out of books to read and the only book in English that I could find in the hotel was "Hotel du Lac"The main charcter goes to a hotel and is given room307 I thought that seemed familiar and it was because i was sitting in room 307.Incidentally while lookig up the book to recall the number yesterday a page fell open at"A cold coming i had of it"which is a paraphrase from TS Eliot and I realised I could hear a play being broadcast on Radio 4 about T.S.Eliot. Another holiday I took 2 books with me to read .one was A Diary of a Nobody and the other was a modern book I hadn't read before by India Knight.In the modern book one character buys a copy of Diary of a Nobody for another. My father had a business phone number of Battersea 1905 for over 30 years and our home number of Cherrywood 6319 .He was born in 1905 and died in 1963. Almost on a daily basis i experience the coincidence of words.When I am reading a book,magazine,jar label etc etc I hear one of the words I am reading (complex words not "and" or "the" )simultaneously said on radio or TV usually in a completely different context often whole phrases.I could understand if this were the News and I was reading a newspaper but this appears in completely random subjects.It happens so often I don't take much notice any more. Teresa Yakub.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:02:51 +0000Coincidence ID:4616