Hobbit
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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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As I was writing a book, I wrote an e-mail to my Mum regarding the number of words in an average novel. I listed some famous ones as examples. The first on my list was The Hobbit, at 95,000 words. An hour after writing I turned on Radio 4 and there was a programme with a section on how to write a good book and one of the first questions the interviewee asked the interviewer was 'how many words would you guess are in The Hobbit?’ Now if that is not a coincidence I don't know what is.
Date submitted:Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:56:11 +0000Coincidence ID:9943
