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 <jo...@panix.com> 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 > 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. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- 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.
