Editing Miracle (section)

===Law of truly large numbers===
{{main|Law of truly large numbers|Littlewood's law}}
Statistically improbable events are sometimes called miracles. For instance, when three classmates coincidentally meet in a different country decades after having left school, they may consider this ''miraculous''. However, a colossal number of events happen every moment on Earth; thus, extremely unlikely coincidences also happen every moment. Events considered ''impossible'' are therefore not so{{snd}}they are just increasingly rare and dependent on the number of individual events. British mathematician [[J. E. Littlewood]] suggested that individuals should statistically expect one-in-a-million events to happen to them at the rate of about one per month. By his definition, seemingly miraculous events are actually commonplace.<ref>{{cite book |author=J. E. Littlewood |url=https://archive.org/details/mathematiciansmi033496mbp/page/n115/mode/2up |title=A Mathematician's Miscellany |publisher=Methuen & Co. Ltd. |year=1953 |location=London |pages=104-105}}</ref>