OK here you go:
A miraculous thing happened to me on a chemistry test while I was enrolled in the Advanced Medical Laboratory Course at the Academy of Health Science (Ft. Sam Houston, TX) back in August 1992.
The instructors had very strict rules on chemistry tests. They did not give partial credit for problem solving work or for answers that are close to being correct. Answers had to be written in the correct significant figures and rounded up or down depending on the problem. Anyone caught cheating would be immediately expelled.
X osm/Kg = 1.86 Na (_____mmol/L) + 0.056 glucose (______mg/dL) + 0.36 BUN(_____mg/dL)
Any way while taking a test I forgot the standard coefficients (constants) for solving an osmolality problem (formula written above). No big deal I thought as I felt confident that I did very well on the rest of the test. But I had 5 minute before the tests were to be collected so I tried to remember the coefficients. (They actually were 1.86 for Na, 0.56 for glucose and 0.36 for BUN)
I was sure of 1.86 was correct for Na and I used 0.030 for BUN and another off the wall number that was completely wrong for glucose (can’t remember what it was).
I knew that two of the coefficients that I used could not possibly be correct. Yet I sat there and watched my hand plug in the erroneous numbers into my calculator. The calculator gave me an answer that I was sure was wrong. But I wrote it onto my test and handed it in to be graded.
I was floored when I learned that my answer was correct even to the significant figures. When I told this to my fellow students they did not believe me.
Good thing that the instructors did not look at how I got the answer because there is no way I could justify it. The instructors would say that I copied the answer and calculated backwards. I would have surely been expelled.
This is unsettling to me even today (25 years later). The odds of getting the correct answer the way I did it seem astronomically high. Like one in a million trillion or so.
Forces me to consider the possibility of divine Intervention.