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accident
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In risk management, any unanticipated or unpredictable event that may interfere with normal functions or cause logical or physical damage to data.



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That chance event brought the kids, who had always been involved in theater in Oklahoma, to Los Angeles this past January.
According to this scenario, the time needed to freeze a given volume of water--say, 1 liter dispersed into a fine mist--is independent of the size of the individual droplets because the formation of a seed particle is a chance event.
Opponents of this book's thesis argue that, if there were billions and billions of universes and an infinite time, all these chance events could have happened, and happened simultaneously.
 
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