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Fuzzy numbers etc.

A sports article last Tuesday about the current dominance of Boston’s professional football, basketball and baseball teams misstated the chances of any city with only one franchise in each of those sports winning championships in the same season. It is 1 in 2,000, not 1 in 29,000. Link

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