What is the probability of THAT happening? It totally freaked us out...
I find this completely bizarre...
What are the odds? Has to be astronomical..
“I”.
Quick, buy a Lotto ticket!
I wish I could help, but math is not my subject.
The odds of that happening on a day predicted day, with a predicted pair of people, would be astronomical.
The odds of it happening somewhere at sometime with some people? Not so much.
I think your co-worker is playing a joke on you.
Sometimes weird things do happen.
When you’re hot, you’re hot.
If it is truly ‘random’ the odds of any one song being played is exactly the same for all songs in the group.
I would bet that the ‘random’ part is not truly random and only partially so..........
The number of trailing 0s in 6000! is 1498
➥ The number of digits in 6000 factorial is 20066.
➥ The factorial of 6000 is calculated as below: 6000! = 6000 • 5999 • 5998 • 5997 • 5996 ... 3 • 2 • 1
Two days ago I played that same song at the local waffle house. Just out of the blue. I hadn’t heard it or even thought of it in decades. Then suddenly it popped into my head.
CERN. That must be it.
Earlier today the piped-in music at work was playing “Afternoon Delight”.
It was truly horrifying
“I think your co-worker is playing a joke on you.”
occam’s razor says so too
“Random” can be a very deceptive concept. Whatever software is used to generate the random order may have biases built into it that are not obvious to the programmer himself.
Red Flag
What makes you think it’s a coincidence.
I believe that when you play various streaming services, they may customize your playlist based on your preferences and settings and previous input, but it’s fairly obvious to me that they are also making selections based on some of their own criteria, much of which is monetized. There are costs on their side associated with streaming music just there are with broadcasting it.
Itunes and Apple music also have a lot of things going on behind the scenes affecting decisions, how algorithms are written, and what is currently even being shared. Yes, on some of these services, the media you play you have paid for, but that’s not true strictly speaking if you read the fine print, and that also doesn’t mean that when you select random or shuffle that you are getting anything remotely close to pure randomization.
work station is near a bar. the bar serves beer. coors is advertised at that bar. smokey and the bandit were running coors light east of the mississippi...
bar tender needs to order more beer, uses phone, coors pings his location and the song pops into playlist and electronically to anyone nearby.
Anout a month after my wife passed I had my iPod playing a playlist I had labeled The Good War. First song right off the start on shuffle was Jo Stafford I’ll Be Seeing You. The iPod cycled through the forty or so songs on the playlist and the last song played was Vera Lynn We’ll Meet Again. I don’t feel it was a coincidence.
not so astronomical- we go through periods where it seems l iek almost every time we look at a digital clock it will be at something like 1:11 2:22, 3:33 and so on, and this can go on for quite some time, weeks sometimes- it gets kinda spooky- and might happen a couple of times a year- or at least we notice it happening-
OK everyone, calm down. We just figured out that the Bluetooth speaker was tuned in to the local FM favorite that everyone listens too, especially during "Smokey and the Bandit" week.