So do you conclude that there is or is not any statistical evidence that
the random mix isn't being random?

Max

smc2911 Wrote: 
> Despite having a mathematics degree, I too was initially suckered by the
> birthday paradox and was surprised by the frequency of multiple tracks
> from a single album in a random playlist. To recover my pride, since
> someone mentioned the birthday paradox
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox), I could resist doing
> the calculations. Here are some probabilities for seeing at least two
> tracks from the same album (any album, not a particular album) for a
> collection of 350 albums (my collection) and 650 (Mike's).
>


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max.spicer

The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible
teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
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