Last year I had thanksgiving with a friend I used to date. She is exactly a year younger than me. At that thanksgiving dinner, out of 12 people, 4 of us were born on Sept. 6th.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 09:00:49AM +0200, AlunFoto wrote: > 2009/9/30 John Francis <[email protected]>: > > 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 ... > > Lol! > > I have a relative who likes to travel Europe by charter bus. He takes > a kick out of betting with some poor bloke on whether two people in > the bus have the same birthdays, before grabbing the guide microphone, > announce his intents and ask people to reveal their birthdays. So far > he's only lost the bet once; I think the total score is 5:1 in his > favour. > > Jostein > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > 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. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
