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[–] brandnewset 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Very suspect

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[–] Billeee 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

So true and how many times does stuff like this need to occur before it becomes "mathematically impossible" to be a coinkydink?

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[–] PepeFarmRemembers ago  (edited ago)

Think of it this way. There is a great number of events which could possibly occur (N, say) and which might deserve the title "coincidence". Each of these may have a very small probability of occurring in any given week (p, say). Now N is large, and p is small, but the average number of occurrences (i.e., the product Np) may be of reasonable size. It follows "by the laws of chance" that coincidences will definitely occur sooner or later. Indeed, the world would be more surprising if coincidences never occurred.

re: https://plus.maths.org/content/what-coincidence