Arthur J. Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>Nice class exercise problem:
>If I have N students, each assigned a random number from 0001 to 9999
>like the last 4 digits of an SSN, what is the probability that two
>students will have the same last 4 digits?
Isn't this just the birthday problem all over again, with 9999
replacing 365?
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