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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 8223021, member: 27832&quot;]This post got me thinking about probability -- how often you&#039;d find something that looks like a year in a serial number -- and that reminded me how I never quite completely got the hang of probability. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But I just checked the singles in my wallet, and I&#039;ve got:</p><p><br /></p><p>53<b>1947</b>79</p><p><b>2023</b>4070</p><p><b>18021771</b></p><p>69446428</p><p><br /></p><p>So, one note that <i>didn&#039;t</i> have a year, at least no nearby one -- and three that did, with one that had <i>two</i> years!</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a bit of an usual streak -- I checked some other notes, and only two out of eight or nine had anything like a year -- but it&#039;s<i> pretty</i> common, as such things go.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ditto to [USER=27107]@SteveInTampa[/USER]&#039;s comments -- keep watching your change![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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