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https://www.furman.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/218/2022/08/high-noon-logo-big.jpg?wsr500304What are the odds of two people in a room of 23 having the same birthday? You may say not likely, but the math says it’s better than 50 percent. Furman math professor John Harris will explain why that is so and talk about other amazing coincidences that may not be so coincidental when he speaks at the university’s High Noon fall lecture series Wednesday, Oct. 7 at noon at the Upcountry History Museum-Furman. The lecture, “What a Coincidence!,” is free and open to the public.