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Pastimes : Quantum Physics -- or -- Physics Revisited
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To: Cisco who wrote (184)2/4/2005 10:37:34 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 228
 
What are the odds of this occurring by accident?


The names? or the conceptions?

The probabilty of any random occurance of 3 events is

3 (possible orders for the 1st event)
2 (for the second since one has already been assigned)
1 (for the last one )

so the number of ways it could be ordered is 3 * 2 * 1

also known as 3 factorial. The probabily of 1 particular
order is 1/ (3 * 2 * 1 ) or 1/6

- It's unlikely that births and names occur at random so
this probability does not apply.
TP
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