From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 9 07:22:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA15198 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA15190 Tue, 9 Jan 1996 07:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA08375; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:20:20 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:20:48 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA17715; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:20:47 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199601091520.PAA17715@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: Prognosis of 2.2-960107-SNAP To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 15:20:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: paul@netcraft.co.uk, jkh@time.cdrom.com, jehamby@lightside.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 9, 96 09:36:15 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In reply to Jonathan M. Bresler who said > > On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > > > Isn't there some mathematical puzzle that says something like, you > > only need 27 people in a room for one of them to have a birthday the > > same day as yours? Given the numbers we have, we've probably got > > every day covered. Yeah, well, having now been prompted by all these responses I remember the "puzzle" properly, "How many people do you need to have in the same room for there to be a 50% chance that two of them have the same birthday" > here is a bc function to calculate the odds of ANY two people in > a group having the same birthday Some people have too much spare time on their hands :-) I seemed to miss a lot of the math classes when I was in college, I think they were in the morning or something :-) -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)