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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. “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.

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