mrfantasy;391968 Wrote: > And actually, you're oversimplifying--you're assuming you have 365 > artists in a uniform distribution. I'd expect about 15% of any random > mix to be one artist (Marillion) since they're about 15% of my track > count. The combinatorics are actually more complicated than that (and > they are with the birthday paradox as well, but assuming a uniform > distribution of birthdays works for the parlor trick aspect of it).
Well, yes, but then the actual Birthday Paradox has the same problem: birthdays are not evenly distributed across the year. (Something to do with amorous activities in colder months.... So in NA, there are more births in the late summer and early fall than there are in the winter.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59041 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
