Saturday, 21 November 2009

Coincidence

I parked in a side road in Royal Leamington Spa today and - when I returned - found that the car next to me had a registration number identical except for one letter. I wonder what he chances are of that happening?

2 comments:

  1. Higher than you might think, given that you have a relatively mainstream car, and are in your home region. I would need to go to North Staffordshire to improve my chances on the location, but my car is relatively uncommon (Honda Jazz}.

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  2. I think this is a fermi problem
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20081218.shtml

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