(Must be Friday somewhere.) I first heard this ages ago as a puzzle. If you want to bet money on matching birthdays in a group of people, how many people would you need to give yourself winning odds? Of course, way fewer than most people would guess. So you take your winnings and hit the road before they figure it out.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:27:33 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >There's a recent CICS APAR PI82188 that showed up in my Red Alert ... > >STCKF and friends have been discussed here and/or the assembler list in >recent years, but I've always thought of STCKF clashes as a theoretical >problem not likely to be encountered in one's lifetime. >The APAR description suggests, without clearly saying so, that this has >happened at multiple customer sites. > >If you're one in a million, and you live in a city of three million people... > It may be far worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
