Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 14:02:45 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: paul@netcraft.co.uk Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), jehamby@lightside.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Prognosis of 2.2-960107-SNAP Message-ID: <867.821106165@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 1996 12:00:07 GMT." <199601081200.MAA00396@originat.demon.co.uk>
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> 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. > It's not a puzzle, it's probability, and yes it is true, around 25 the probability goes above 50%. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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