Littlewood's law, making
certain suppositions, is explained as follows:
Littlewood defines a miracle as an exceptional event of special
significance occurring at a frequency of one in a million; during the hours
in which a human is awake and alert, a human will experience one thing
per second (for instance, seeing the computer screen, the keyboard, the
mouse, the article, etc.); additionally, a human is alert for about eight
hours per day; and as a result, a human will, in 35 days, have
experienced, under these suppositions, 1,008,000 things. Accepting this
definition of a miracle, one can be expected to observe one miraculous
occurrence within the passing of every 35 consecutive days -- and
therefore, according to this reasoning, seemingly miraculous events are
actually commonplace.
