Jim Mason
May 5, 2022

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Seasonality may have some effect, but even if one assumes that birthdays are uniformly distributed around the year, probably calculations show that the probably of two people in a room having the same birthday exceeds 50% as soon as the crowd size reaches 24, and it rises steadily from then on. So for a crowd size of 30 it's quite high, and by 367 it's, of course, a certainly.

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Jim Mason
Jim Mason

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