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Strange thing happened on the way to work this morning. I had the iPod on shuffle and it played a particular song and then played that song again. I wondered why. Stopped at the lights I had a quick look: I had that song on two albums (once on the original album, and once on an 80’s compilation album).

So – what are the odds that those two recordings of the same song played back to back?

I figure it’s 1 in 2,747,306. I’ve got 1658 songs in the iPod right now, and if I remember my probability from high school maths the chance of any two songs being adjacent to each other is 1658 x 1657.