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Do you like to dance?

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From: tchow12...@yahoo.com (Timothy Chow)
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Subject: Do you like to dance?
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:25:47 -0400
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by: Timothy Chow - Sun, 28 Aug 2022 05:25 UTC

I just played a game against XG in which both of us were having
trouble coming in against a five-point board. Between the two
of us, we danced 17 times in a row.

I thought this was highly unusual, but then I calculated that
(25/36)^17 is only about 1 in 500. Not as unlikely as I thought.

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Tim Chow