>>> 18. A one-in-billion event will happen 8 times a month: https://gwern.net/Li... | Hacker News

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		analog31 on Oct 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and phys... >>> 18. A one-in-billion event will happen 8 times a month: https://gwern.net/Littlewood This is certainly counterintuitive, given that one-in-a-billion and 8 per month have different units of measure.

elcomet on Oct 6, 2021 [–]

The implicit information is that there is one-in-billion chance that this event happens to someone in a given month.

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