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The Mathematics of Jeopardy


For all the math geeks. In 23 years, this has never happened.

The three contestants on the venerable game show all finished with $16,000 after each answering the final question correctly in the category, “Women of the 1930s,” on Friday’s show. They identified Bonnie Parker, of the famed Bonnie and Clyde crime duo, as a woman who, as a waitress, once served one of the men who shot her.

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The show contacted a mathematician who calculated the odds of such a three-way tie happening – one in 25 million.

UPDATE: There’s video, of course.

(via yahoo news)

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