2009/9/30 John Francis <jo...@panix.com>: > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
