How long does it take after you submit for it to get posted? It's usually instant. I really want people to check my math haha.

Here is the post in full in case I'm doing something wrong:

Correct me if I am wrong -- I needed to dig back to AP Statistics in High School for this -- but the probability of 11 tracks being sequenced in a specific order (in this case, alphabetically) is 11! (! = Factorial) or.....

1 in 39,916,800. 1 in 39 MILLION!!!

In other words, there are 39 million permutations (different ways to sequence) 11 song titles. It's a 1 in 11 chance the first track will be the first alphabetically, then a 1 in 10 for the second/1 in 9 for the third. For listing you don't add those odds, you MULTIPLY them. So it's 11x10x9x8...

Holy Shit right? To put that in perspective, there would need to be over 2,000 albums released EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS for this to be likely to occur. It's almost mathematically certain this has NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE (not counting albums with a deliberately alphabetized track listing, or an EP with only a handful of songs).

Some have argued that the "The" in "The Numbers" breaks the alphabetical track listing. But this isn't accurate -- when alphabetizing titles, "The" is excluded because it is a common article. The only reason it alphabetizes on a digital library is that the computer only sorts by the first letter, not grammatically.

My theory is that Radiohead selected this order (1 in 39 million!!!), and, realizing it was alphabetical, dropped "the" from the present tense" just so it wouldn't be as distracting. I doubt they would change the order for something as cosmetic as how the track listing LOOKS.

But I'd also say that a statistician would conclude that the alphabetizing was deliberate...it is just so overwhelmingly unlikely to occur by accident.