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Re: Birthday Mathematics
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lugnet.people
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Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:01:20 GMT
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eric@ericharshbarger.org%stopspammers%
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Correct, Frank. I slipped up by 1 there at the end. 366 to guarantee a
non-leap-year overlap.
sorry for the slip,
eric
Frank Filz wrote:
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> blessing wrote:
> > > And, obviously, if your crowd has 365 people of more, you MUST have a
> > > common birthday somewhere.
> >
> > Now that makes sence.
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> Except there's an "off by one error" (actually, it's an off by two, the
> year has 365 or 366 days, so therefore to guarantee an overlap you must
> have 367 people, unless you count Feb 29 the same as Mar 1, in which
> case you only need 366 people).
>
> --
> Frank Filz
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| (...) Except there's an "off by one error" (actually, it's an off by two, the year has 365 or 366 days, so therefore to guarantee an overlap you must have 367 people, unless you count Feb 29 the same as Mar 1, in which case you only need 366 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.people)
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