Friday, July 23, 2021

Improbable Shape

 Below we see a hair exactly as I found it on my sink basin this morning, the only hair I found on that sink basin. I asked the only other person in my living quarters (my wife) whether she caused this heart-shaped arrangement, and she denied doing so.  I can never recall finding a hair with such a shape before. Imagining a grid of 100 by 100 positions, you can do a quick calculation suggesting that the chance of a hair landing so that its end point exactly matches its starting point is only about 1 in 10,000 or smaller. 

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