Zaphod is listening to a news broadcast about himself when Trillian interrupts to point out that Ford and Arthur were picked up by the ship in the same sector where Zaphod had once picked her up. They agree that is highly improbable and Zaphod decides he wants to know the exact improbability ratio. He consults the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Shipboard Computer, but its attitude of pleasure and happiness annoys him so much that he decides to do it the old-fashioned way on paper. In the end, he isn't able to do the numbers, so he again consults the computer. This time it gives him the random fact that.....
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