On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Craig J. Lindstrom wrote: > I agree that the number of collisions is less than would be suggested by > brute force. We do the birthday experiment in class. This semester it > only took 6 people.
For some reason, every time a professor of mine has done the birthday experiment, the first person always shares a birthday with somebody else in the class. (The first time it happened, I was said "somebody else".) Weird, eh? ~ Ross -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
