>From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Brin-L) >Subject: Re: spyware >Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:35:21 -0500 > > > From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The Fool wrote: > > > > > > > From: jeffrey miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
<snip> > > > Perhaps but then again go into a room with 36 different people in it >and > > > you are 99% percent probable to have the same birthday as someone. > > > > Is it that if individual A is put in a room with 35 other people, 1 is > > 99% likely to have the same birthday as A, or is it that, given 36 > > people, it is 99% probable that 2 of them will share a birthday? > > > > I thought it was the second. My reading of your sentence suggests the > > first. > >I forget. It was a problem in my high school math class, a considerable >time ago. Thinking about it you are probably correct. See I admit to >mistakes. > I had a math teacher in High School try it. I laughed at it, figuring the odds were really astronomical. Turned out there were three people in a class of 31 with *my* birthday. :-) Jon _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
