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The Birthday Paradox
How many people do you think it would take to survey, on an average, to find two people who share the same birthday?
Well, with the help of probability, sometimes an event is 'more likely to occur' than we believe it to. In this case, If you survey a random group of just 23 people there is actually about a 50–50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday. This is known as the birthday paradox. Don't believe it's true? You can test it and see mathematical probability in action!
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Background
The birthday paradox, also known as the birthday problem, states that in a random group of 23 people, there is about a 50 percent chance that two people have the same birthday. Is this really true? There are multiple reasons why this seems like a paradox....
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But the chances are much more than expected.
But when all 23 birthdays are compared against each other, it makes for much more than 22 comparisons. How much more? Well, the first person has 22 comparisons to make, but the second person was already compared to the first person, so there are only 21 c...
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