Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:20:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, jehamby@lightside.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Prognosis of 2.2-960107-SNAP Message-ID: <199601091520.PAA17715@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960108164425.21608D-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 9, 96 09:36:15 am
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In reply to Jonathan M. Bresler who said > > On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > > > Isn't there some mathematical puzzle that says something like, you > > only need 27 people in a room for one of them to have a birthday the > > same day as yours? Given the numbers we have, we've probably got > > every day covered. Yeah, well, having now been prompted by all these responses I remember the "puzzle" properly, "How many people do you need to have in the same room for there to be a 50% chance that two of them have the same birthday" > here is a bc function to calculate the odds of ANY two people in > a group having the same birthday Some people have too much spare time on their hands :-) I seemed to miss a lot of the math classes when I was in college, I think they were in the morning or something :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)
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