Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Everyone is a Miracle

A huffpost article on the odds of being born. 

From the article (there is quite a bit of preamble but just look at the numbers below):

So now we must account for those 150,000 generations by raising 400 quadrillion to the 150,000 power:

[4x10] ≈ 10

That's a ten followed by 2,640,000 zeroes, which would fill 11 volumes the size of my book. Multiplying it all together for the sake of completeness (Step 1 x Step 2 x Step 3 x Step 4):

Are You a Miracle? On the Probability of being born.

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