Maths of Love and Sex
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The Probability of a Couple Having a Boy or a Girl
For every 20 boys that are born, 21 girls are born. Gycalld john arbuthnock looked at data over 80 years and found that in every year, as more boys than girls are been born. There's this lovely theory which says that the probability of having a boy is related to what i shall term a coital rate. And there's evidence that conceptions earlyr in the month of a small tendency, more likely to be oko. That's why i was going drinking wit Brianii lit as my aybrian noave an alternative. We did strop cardigan on, didn't we? And he wor sugest everything. It's reay ast
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