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Brownian Motion for People, Or The Uncertainty of Life

I don’t know exactly when I came to the conclusion that life is a gamble. For most people the odds that we will live long and prosper, as the saying goes, are reasonably good, but it’s not a sure bet. You have probably heard, or read, about a person who overslept thereby missing a flight he or she was scheduled to take, which crashed and killed all on board. What were the odds for that single individual or for those who died?

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