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One might also say that an unlikely event will happen "on the 32nd of the month". To express indefinite postponement, you might say that an event is deferred "to the [Greek] Calends" (see Latin). A less common expression used to point out someone's wishful thinking is Αν η γιαγιά μου είχε καρούλια, θα ήταν ...
The paradoxical feature of the laws of probability is that they make unlikely events happen unexpectedly often. A simple way to state the paradox is Littlewood’s law of miracles. John Littlewood [...] defined a miracle as an event that has special importance when it occurs, but occurs with a probability of one in a million.
List of association footballers who died while playing; List of causes of death by rate; List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death
Luck. Fate. Blessing. A glitch in the matrix. Or, if you’re more skeptical, just a coincidence.. It’s a phenomenon that, from a statistical perspective, is random and meaningless.
Image credits: James Carr #5. Shocking but true. Back in the 60s my mother took me swimming to a public beach at a lake on a hot summer day. A man, reading his newspaper on his lakeside porch, got ...
Rare or extreme events are events that occur with low frequency, and often refers to infrequent events that have a widespread effect and which might destabilize systems (for example, stock markets, [1] ocean wave intensity [2] or optical fibers [3] or society [4]).
Barbara Antmann, whose sister was part of the NYC-based commune the Sullivanians, in Manhattan, circa 1986. A new book about the group by Alexander Stille is out now.
Then, the probability that this so-called unlikely event does not happen (improbability) in a single trial is 99.9% (0.999). For a sample of only 1,000 independent trials, however, the probability that the event does not happen in any of them, even once (improbability), is only [5] 0.999 1000 ≈ 0.3677, or 36.77%.