Jörg Groß wrote:
Hi,
I tried to calculate the formula for the birthday problem
(the probability that at least two people out of a group of n people
share the same birthday)
But the factorial-function allows me only to calculate factorials up to
170.
So is there a way to push that limit?
to solve this formula:
(factorial(365) / factorial((365-23))) / (365^23)
Obviously you can easily rewrite this formula to:
prod(343:365) / (365^23)
or
factorial(23) * choose(365, 23) / (365^23)
Uwe Ligges
(n=23)
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