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If the odds of picking a particular letter at random are one in 26, doing it over seven selections (the number of letters in question) is (1/26)^7, or .0000000001245. Just about one in 10 billion.
ABC polling director Gary Langer, on the odds that the message spelled out in Schwarzenegger’s letter is a coincidence. (via newsweek)
In case you didn’t catch it yet, here’s the image:
