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A Calculating Situation

Daily Random Word Drabble — Calculate

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A Drabble is exactly 100 words. It’s short. If it was a sausage, it would be a Little Smokey or maybe a Vienna sausage. But unlike the sausages, the Drabble is fiction. The sausages are very real.

Dr. Cyper was widely known for his probability calculations. But being well known is not always an advantage, as he was kidnapped by a gambling ring, forced to calculate probabilities for betting purposes.

The money rolled in.

Dr. Cypher immediately calculated his probability of escape from the gamblers, calculating a low overall probability, but a very high probability of escape if he could somehow get his hands on a cell phone.

But even given the opportunity, he calculated near zero probability his fear would allow him to pick up the phone.

He never escaped. His undoing was incapacitation by calculation.*

*paralysis by analysis

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