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RE: Killing Time WIth Recreational Math: The Birthday Paradox on Mars

in #math7 years ago

The 'paradox' refers to the fact that you can get a 50-50 chance of matching birthdays in a group of 23 people. This would be the size of a small company, large family, or a department at work. So people would notice this odd chance in a normal environment.

On Jupiter the group size swells to 122 people so the odds of a matchup won't be seen all that often. Hence no paradox.

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So, you are saying that it's ab the percentage not the number of people? You mean that it won't be possible to get the 50%, right?

Do you have somewhere sth written ab the stochastic process/activity? I'd like to have a look at it. 10x!