Law Of Truly Large Numbers

2 pages on this site touch on this topic.

• The law of truly large numbers: it happens to someone — Given a large enough number of opportunities, even wildly improbable events become almost certain to occur to somebody, somewhere.
• Winning the lottery twice: the New Jersey case — A clerk won two lottery jackpots four months apart in 1985–86 — reported as 1-in-17-trillion odds, until statisticians asked the right question.