RE: AskSteemit - What's a big coincidence you've experienced?

[doctorcrypto]

My oldest son was born on my fathers birthday. My youngest son was born on his mom's fathers birthday. They both share a birthday with a grandpa.

Comments

[therealwolf]

are you serious? damn..

[valikos]

no way :) congratulation ;)

[acidyo]

Hehe, I've heard something similar once about a friend of mine. Have you heard of the Birthday Paradox?

From wikipedia:

birthday problem or birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle, the probability reaches 100% when the number of people reaches 367 (since there are only 366 possible birthdays, including February 29). However, 99.9% probability is reached with just 70 people, and 50% probability with 23 people.

[doctorcrypto]

Yes i have heard that in a room of 40 people, there is something like a 75% chance that 2 will share the same birthday.

[heymattsokol]

Tagging onto this thread... one of my first serious musical groups was a duo, and we realized a few months in that the two of us have the same birthday.

I later learned I share the birthday with one of my favorite authors, Thomas Pynchon!! What a fun coincidence.

[englishtchrivy]

Have a happy reddit Bday
I can't answer your title query
but I'd like to thank you for the pointers you mentioned on what makes the reddit posts awesome
thought provoking ey..
yeah.. the comments .. please let them flood but I guess most people don't read posts anymore
unless one comes out on the trending
that's the trend these days
seems like everyone just ups and most of the old friends and mostly newbies do the commenting
sighs
gone are those days when comments flooded and were meant
I still write them as so not because I'm a martyr or some self- righteous commenter
I just think - comments should be meant and not just thrown for the sake of writing something and getting ups