During a field exercise, my squad was on a night patrol through some thick brush. Halfway through the exercise, we realized we had lost our map. The patrol navigator informed us, “Our odds are 1 in 359 that we'll get out of here.” “How do you come up with that?” I asked. “Well,” he replied, “one of the degrees on the compass has to be right.”
在實地演習期間,我的小隊夜間巡邏穿越一個濃密的叢林。走到半途我們發(fā)現(xiàn)地圖丟了。巡邏領(lǐng)航員告訴我們:“我們能從這里走出去的概率是三百五十九分之一。”我問:“你怎么得出這么一個數(shù)?”他回答說:“羅盤上三百六十度總有一度是正確的?!?