From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 9 10:45:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA27937 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (aspen.woc.atinc.com [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27915 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 10:45:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA24459; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:42:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:42:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Paul Richards cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, jehamby@lightside.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Prognosis of 2.2-960107-SNAP In-Reply-To: <199601091520.PAA17715@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > 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 :-) and a vicious prof for random processes. 1/3 of the class failed. that was not the expected value as computed by the ee department. a lot of very pissed off people were the result. that semester i graduated, so i dont know what the final result was. > I seemed to miss a lot of the math classes when I was in college, I > think they were in the morning or something :-) math at 8am. ee department didnt start teaching till 10am at the earliest and was much happier with 1pm. didnt fit well with working a full time day job. i took a lot of math electives ;) Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG