Here is a little lesson about probabilities.
At http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/BH825.txt you can find the full text of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed 1982.
To make the experiment somewhat Hebrew-like, we will ignore all vowels, and treat upper and lower case letters as the same.
This document (stripped down to its consonants) has some remarkable ELSs. The probabilities I will give are those of finding EVEN ONE example in a text formed by randomly shuffling the letters.
This Convention is primary source of international law relating to oceans and waterways. In fact if you read it you
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HeaR aLL THe LaW oF THe Sea.
(start=190588, skip=-15290, prob=0.000095)
Many other ELSs of very low probability can be found, but I will content myself with exploring this question: why was this Convention signed? The cynic might say it was just that
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NaTo NeeD aN aGReeMeNT oN THe Sea,
(start=88311, skip=3404, prob=0.000021)
but the truth is more mundane. After all, the world fishing industry benefits more than anyone. Yes, this was just a
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SaFe uN oCeaN CoNVeNTioN To eNCLoSe TuNa.
(start=144491, skip-2066, prob=0.000000001)
Brendan McKay, [email protected]
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