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Sep 2018
Typically,                   statistically impossible events
are often called miracles;     for instance,
when three classmates meet
by coincidence in a different country decades
after leaving school, may be considered
miraculous.             However, a colossal
number of events happen every moment
on earth; thus extremely unlikely coincidences
                also happen every moment;
Events that are considered impossible
are therefore not impossible at all —
they are just rare, depending on the number
          of individual events;
          It was British mathematician &
Cambridge University
Professor John Edensor Littlewood
      who suggested that individuals should statistically
expect one-in-a-million events i.e., "miracles"
                           to happen to them at the rate
         of about one per month.
By Littlewood's
         definition, seemingly miraculous events
         are in actuality commonplace;  
    The law,          framed by Littlewood,
                            was published
in his 1986 collection, A Mathematician's Miscellany;
                                     seeking among
                                     other things to debunk
                                one element
                                of supposed supernatural
                                phenomenology
& is related to the more general law
of truly large numbers,       
                 which states
       that with a sample size as large
                    as the totality of reality,
                      any outrageous thing is likely to happen
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