English Explanatory Dictionary

Littlewood's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The observation that a person can expect to experience an event with odds of one in a million approximately once per month.

Word forms

Littlewood's law

Etymology

The law was framed by Cambridge University Professor John Edensor Littlewood, and published in a 1986 collection of his work.

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