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Re:Random Valid US Address by iLoch on Monday September 07, 2015 @01:24AM (#10180163)
What are the odds that it gave me the same birth date as my actual birth date? Month and day, but not year. That's quite the coincidence, though I suspect it's only something like 1:60.
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Re:Random Valid US Address by bentpins on Monday September 07, 2015 @01:37AM (#10180199)
1/365 I'd think. There are 365 days in a year and it has to match exactly one day. You might be interested in the Birthday Paradox though http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthd...
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Re:Random Valid US Address by ryan-c on Monday September 07, 2015 @02:38AM (#10180346)
Birthdays are not uniformly distributed. http://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html
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Re:Random Valid US Address by camkego on Monday September 07, 2015 @03:04AM (#10180397)
Yes, but the probability that it found the same month and day as iLoch's, depend on the uniformity and independence of the month/day generator, not the distribution of actual birthdays.
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Re:Random Valid US Address by iLoch on Monday September 07, 2015 @03:50PM (#10182759)
Yeah my guess was based on the birthday paradox. Though now I see that yes the software probably chose a random number between 1 and 365 so the birthday paradox wouldn't apply.
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Re:Random Valid US Address by phire on Monday September 07, 2015 @01:36AM (#10180196)
That would be 1:365.24

It would be 1 in 365, but leap years mess it up a bit.

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Re:Random Valid US Address by bentpins on Monday September 07, 2015 @01:50AM (#10180238)
Leap days are generated at the same frequency as regular days as far as I can tell. That simplifies things again to 1:366
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