{"id":71,"date":"2005-03-20T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T17:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=71"},"modified":"2005-03-20T17:33:35","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T17:33:35","slug":"strange-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Strange phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heard on BBC Radio 4 news last night:<\/p>\n<ul><i>If Wales hadn&#8217;t beaten Ireland in the rugby match then it&#8217;s mathematically possible that France could have won the Grand Slam<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>This use of the phrase <b><i>mathematically possible<\/i><\/b> to mean <b><i>a small probability<\/i><\/b> is not uncommon, particularly in sport. And it&#8217;s not confined to the UK as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ospolitics.org\/knowledge\/archives\/2003\/10\/22\/mathematic.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematically Possible<\/a> shows. It would be interesting to find out how this phrase came to have this strange meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heard on BBC Radio 4 news last night: If Wales hadn&#8217;t beaten Ireland in the rugby match then it&#8217;s mathematically possible that France could have won the Grand Slam This use of the phrase mathematically possible to mean a small probability is not uncommon, particularly in sport. And it&#8217;s not confined to the UK as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}