Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Littlewoods Law of miracles

John Littlewood was a great mathematician.He believed miracles happened once per a million, and his carrer path as a mathematician led him to believe this. He based this calculation on assuming that the typical person is awake and alert about eight hours a day and that events occur at the rate of about one per second. He calculated his own law of miracles due to the fact that he was a mathematician. And since he was a mathematician it was seemed to be a believeable law. Even though most people usually think that miracles are works of God because they happen so rarely that god has something to do with performing the miracles. But when people use calculations to describe how things occur and when miracles occur then it seems like Johns law of miracles is believably true. Like how there were 911 days between September 11th attacks and the Madrid bombing in Spain.  Ofcourse people connected these two events and considered this significant enough to believe the Littlewoods law of miracles.

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