Written by Vincent

Birthdays and paradoxes

I was sitting down, thinking of an amusing article to write, and I didn’t quite feel up to writing. It’s been a long weekend, and besides, it’s a special day for me today.

32 years old

So I thought, “What the heck”.

Then I thought I should at least leave you with something. So I’ll introduce you to the concept of the birthday paradox. Basically, given a group of 23 people, what’s the percentage chance that any 2 persons in that group share the same birthday? (hint: it’s higher than you think. Here’s a less clinical explanation of the paradox than the one from Wikipedia.).

Enjoyed reading this? Share it!
  • HackerNews
  • Reddit
  • Slashdot
  • FriendFeed
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • del.icio.us
  • Posterous

Tags: ,

Published on 22 June 2009
More posts like this one :

Comments

Leave a Reply

I reserve the right to delete offensive, spammy and/or unintelligible (based on context) comments. I do read all comments, even if it takes a while for me to respond. Polite criticism is fine. Rude ones will be deleted (right after I correct the error of course).