Math works On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Stanley Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: > I already know the answer - Dave Brooks and I have the same date, also shared > with Marilyn Monroe and Ed Sullivan. > > For clarity, the later two are not PDML members however. > > stan > > >> On Oct 26, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hahaha! funny story. We should try the birthday paradox with the list >> members. There are probably enough of us to demonstrate the math. >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:13 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 04:16:02PM -0500, Gonz wrote: >>>> Birthday paradox >>> >>> I remember when I first encountered the so-called "Birthday Paradox". >>> It was the typical introduction - our maths teacher asked our class >>> of around thirty students to estimate the probability that there was >>> at least one duplicated birthday. >>> >>> After he asked the first three or four people, and received widely >>> differing answers (but all with a very low guess) he asked me. >>> I suggested "100%", pointing out that our class contained two pairs >>> of twins (one pair identical, one very much non-identical). >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> -- Reduce your Government Footprint >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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