On 26 Oct 2001, Chris Ball wrote:

> You're assuming birthdays are evenly distributed throughout the months
> in a year.  I don't have any evidence to say otherwise, but I don't
> think that's true.

Hmm.  Deja vu all over again (all over again)

Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:50:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Happy Birthday

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Andrew Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:56:51AM +0100, Natalie Ford wrote:
> > A bit like mine which I share with the queen mum and my paternal
> > aunt...  :)

> and approx 6,000,000,000 / 365.25 other people

I was quite suprised to find out that birthdays actually do seem to be
reasonably uniformly distributed.

http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_11_23_98.html


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