Editorial note to "Large number coincidences and the anthropic principle
  in cosmology"
  This is an editorial note to accompany reprinting as a Golden Oldie in the
Journal of General Relativity and Gravitation of the famous paper by Brandon
Carter on the anthropic principle in cosmology \cite{Car74}. This paper was
presented at IAU Symposium No. 63, entitled Confrontation of cosmological
theories with observational data, in 1973.
