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Re: Happy Birthday, Howard!
Posted By: Wes, on host 204.215.203.80
Date: Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 08:07:20
In Reply To: Re: Happy Birthday, Howard! posted by Wes on Saturday, August 25, 2001, at 08:03:19:

> > Here's a question for the math aficionados out there: How many people is required to be sure that there's a 99% chance that at least one of them has his/her birthday on a particular day?
>
> I would *think* it would just be .99*365, which when rounded up to whole people is 362. Assuming an even distribution of birthdays. Using real birthday data, it'd probably be more than 365.

Ignore this. I didn't even realize I had posted it, which I shouldn't have done, since it was just an idea I was working with that I was fairly sure was wrong.