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>>> 18. A one-in-billion event will happen 8 times a month: https://gwern.net/Littlewood https://gwern.net/Littlewood This is certainly counterintuitive, given
by analog31 5y ago
>>> 18. A one-in-billion event will happen 8 times a month: https://gwern.net/Littlewood https://gwern.net/Littlewood
This is certainly counterintuitive, given that one-in-a-billion and 8 per month have different units of measure.
- elcomet 5y agoThe implicit information is that there is one-in-billion chance that this event happens to someone in a given month.