On Sep 29, 2009, at 15:00 , Bob W wrote:
I find it moderately interesting that there is such a
clumping of birthdays amongst a list so widely geographically
distributed. I would find it interesting if there was another
month with such a clump.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
You could have at least said "see Note:#3" Bob. It took a long time
to read all those formulæ. I did find a few errors. Didn't want to
take the time to provide citations however. For those still stuck in
the forest of formulæ, the note is:
"In particular, many children are born in the summer, especially the
months of August and September (for the northern hemisphere), and in
the U.S. it has been noted that many children are conceived around the
holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day. Also, because hospitals
rarely schedule C-sections and induced labor on the weekend, more
Americans are born on Mondays and Tuesdays than on weekends."
I don't put a lot of emphasis on birthdays anymore, but I am
happy once a year to see that I've made it through to another one.
This one is special because I begin receiving my retired pay
from the Army National Guard and free health care from the VA.
That's great news - congratulations.
Bob
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