February 09, 2005
Three times is enemy action
So, my housemate's girlfriend's housemate (did you follow that?) turns out to have the same birthday as my Dad. Fair enough, not an entirely unheard of coincidence, 4 people in every 14611 share that birthday. But then I discover that her dad has the same birthday as me!
Freaky.
1 assuming a uniform distribution, yadda yadda.
Posted by James at 09:15
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Exercise of the day: work out the real probability of two people having the same birthday (including 29th February...which is 1/4 as likely to match as any other day...:))
Posted by: Rob G at February 9, 2005 12:01 PM
Or is that rubbish and what you said is actually true.
Posted by: Rob G at February 9, 2005 02:20 PM