On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 05:23:37PM -0700, Joseph McAllister wrote: > 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
Our maths teacher sprung this one on us in the 5th form (ob.us - around 11th grade). He asked us to estimate the probability that two people in our class of around 30 shared the same birthday. He chose a few people to guess, before he revealed the answer. I was one of the two top maths performers in the class, so he saved me until last. My guess? 100% ! That surprised him somewhat, until I pointed out that we had two sets of twins in the class ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
