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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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An extraordinary double coincidence
In 1968, with £50 currency restrictions in UK an Australian friend had deposited some money at a Post Restante in Lucerne.
My friend Jones and I were driving to Italy, via Lucerne. As we crawled over the Alps in his B Reg Mini Traveller, chatting and reading to each other I spotted the name of the canton/area we were entering:
ENGELBERG
"Oh" I said "We had a chap at school called Engel___"
"Oh" said Jones "I was at Oxford with a chap called Engel___"
Since I had been at school in Oxford and Jones and Engel___ had been at Trinity College together
this was not SO remarkable.
That evening (having collected our cash!) we were in restaurant when who should come through the door?
None other than Robert Engel___!!!
You can imagine he was as surprised as we were finding two separate people from his past.
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:54:00 +0000Coincidence ID:5453
