You’re on benson. $500 bet taken. It is absolutely impossible to have 367 people in the same room without a shared birthday. Random walk has nothing to do with it.
Wait a minute!! I just realized that I misunderstood what Lech said. He is correct about the shared birthday after 367 encounters. I went into a momentary lapse of stupidity there.
I joined the bococa_parents yahoo group a few weeks ago.
After an hour I switched to digest mode and after a day or two I switched to no e-mail at all.
A day or two after that I stopped looking at all.
Most of the conversations were about kids less than a year or two old, and even those were annoying.
“First, the first number should be 5/6, not 1/6, so you can actually simplify to 5/6 ^ 6, which is .3349.”
Correct. My bad.
“Second, you forgot the final step, which is to take the inverse.”
Incorrect. I did take the inverse when I converted the number 0.063 into 1/16th.
“Benson, you are 100% wrong about this. If there are 366 people standing in a room there is a 100% chance of a shared birthday.”
Lech, I am willing to put serious money on this one, I am so certain I am right. If you have 367 randomly-selected people in a room, it is not 100% certain that there will be a shared birthday. I am so certain of this, that I am willing to put $500 on the table, and we go to a math professor on this one. You are ignoring the randome walk possibility.
Gem, you can change your parkslopeparents settings to digest and get 25 messages at a time. Or you can read them on the web. Write to me off-list, I can fix. robyf at aol.com
Did any of you see that Christie want’s New York to take back the cast of Jersey Shore??? They’re all from New York and they are an embarrassment
You’re on benson. $500 bet taken. It is absolutely impossible to have 367 people in the same room without a shared birthday. Random walk has nothing to do with it.
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Rob – you have to pay $25 to join PSP.
wow. i assume that is to keep poor people out? :-/ god, what bunch of snobs.
*rob*
Wait a minute!! I just realized that I misunderstood what Lech said. He is correct about the shared birthday after 367 encounters. I went into a momentary lapse of stupidity there.
I was thinking of another problem.
Rob – you have to pay $25 to join PSP.
RF -ahhhh ok let me try that
I joined the bococa_parents yahoo group a few weeks ago.
After an hour I switched to digest mode and after a day or two I switched to no e-mail at all.
A day or two after that I stopped looking at all.
Most of the conversations were about kids less than a year or two old, and even those were annoying.
“First, the first number should be 5/6, not 1/6, so you can actually simplify to 5/6 ^ 6, which is .3349.”
Correct. My bad.
“Second, you forgot the final step, which is to take the inverse.”
Incorrect. I did take the inverse when I converted the number 0.063 into 1/16th.
“Benson, you are 100% wrong about this. If there are 366 people standing in a room there is a 100% chance of a shared birthday.”
Lech, I am willing to put serious money on this one, I am so certain I am right. If you have 367 randomly-selected people in a room, it is not 100% certain that there will be a shared birthday. I am so certain of this, that I am willing to put $500 on the table, and we go to a math professor on this one. You are ignoring the randome walk possibility.
If there are 366 people standing in a room there is a 100% chance of a shared birthday.
What if their were twins in the room?
Gem, you can change your parkslopeparents settings to digest and get 25 messages at a time. Or you can read them on the web. Write to me off-list, I can fix. robyf at aol.com