I already know the answer - Dave Brooks and I have the same date, also shared with Marilyn Monroe and Ed Sullivan.
For clarity, the later two are not PDML members however. stan > On Oct 26, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hahaha! funny story. We should try the birthday paradox with the list > members. There are probably enough of us to demonstrate the math. > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:13 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 04:16:02PM -0500, Gonz wrote: >>> Birthday paradox >> >> I remember when I first encountered the so-called "Birthday Paradox". >> It was the typical introduction - our maths teacher asked our class >> of around thirty students to estimate the probability that there was >> at least one duplicated birthday. >> >> After he asked the first three or four people, and received widely >> differing answers (but all with a very low guess) he asked me. >> I suggested "100%", pointing out that our class contained two pairs >> of twins (one pair identical, one very much non-identical). >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -- Reduce your Government Footprint > > -- > 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. -- 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.
