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On 21/10/12 21:45, Nick Odell wrote:
> [... U]nless you are Mr Jones departing on an
> A380 from Cardiff chartered especially for a Jones family reunion in
> Jonestown, Guyana, the chances of sharing an exact name match with
> your other passengers is vanishingly small.

	I don't think this is true.  Based on processing names of
students in a reasonably large department, I'd guess that at least
10% of the lists contained duplicates [inc middle names, if any].
That was for around 200 students, so quite comparable with the
passenger lists for a moderately large aircraft.  Of course, the
individuals would then have only a 1% chance of being one of the
duplicates, so roughly a 0.1% chance of being personally affected,
but that's still not "vanishingly small".

	Presumably the chance is much smaller for someone called
[eg] "Odell", so many people can be quite blase about this;  but
correspondingly it's much larger for those of us called "Walker".

-- 
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.