Re:Houston is experiencing its third ‘500-year’ flood in 3 y...
by umanwizard on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @06:55PM
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No, the birthday problem still works if you consider that the probability of being born on a particular day is uniform.
It's related to the fact that the probability of two people in a room having a birthday is more closely related to the number of pairs of people in the room (which in turn grows as O(n^2)), than to the number of people in the room.
A detailed proof/explanation can be looked up easily with Google, if you have a bit of mathematical maturity.
It's related to the fact that the probability of two people in a room having a birthday is more closely related to the number of pairs of people in the room (which in turn grows as O(n^2)), than to the number of people in the room.
A detailed proof/explanation can be looked up easily with Google, if you have a bit of mathematical maturity.