To test a theory. (Shared Birthdays)
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I believe you are a bit wrong. If you have 366 people, you can guarantee that at least 2 people share birthdays. It´s called "the Pigeonhole principle" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle[^]
You would need 367 if one of the people in the room was my younger brother - 29th Feb
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You would need 367 if one of the people in the room was my younger brother - 29th Feb
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Chris Quinn wrote:
You would need 367 if one of the people in the room was my younger brother - 29th Feb
Or my former boss.
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
The probability of at least two people sharing the same birthday is 0.5073. Yay, I've found a use for Wolfram Alpha! http://www04.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=same+birthday&f1=23&f=BirthdayProblem.n_23&x=5&y=9[^]
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The probability of at least two people sharing the same birthday is 0.5073. Yay, I've found a use for Wolfram Alpha! http://www04.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=same+birthday&f1=23&f=BirthdayProblem.n_23&x=5&y=9[^]
That crashed my IE8.
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
9th May
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
16th of August
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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Hmm, 21st I think, which is a shame because it would have matched mine - 30th Oct :-)
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Hmm, 21st I think, which is a shame because it would have matched mine - 30th Oct :-)
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July 19th. There's that theory broken ;P
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
19 July
Cheers, Suresh
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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JDL-EPM wrote:
Does it count if this is my wife's birthday?
If she has a little bit of luck, she'll never be forced to share a room with me - even a waiting room as an airport, so probably not.
Jon "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
OCT 28th
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Young Henry mentioned his mother's Birthday below and it reminded me of a probability experiment that states if 23 people are in a room, it is more likely than less that 2 of them share a birthday. What date is your birthday people? Mine is 31st March. Let us see if the first 23 posters to this can get a matching pair?
------------------------------------ "When Belly Full, Chin Hit Chest" Confucius 502BC
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18th Sept. Anyone? . . . No one... :)
Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji, BE IT, India
Mine is the 19th of September! :)
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep But I have promises to keep and lines to code before I sleep, and lines to code before I sleep...