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A comment on The Birthday Paradox – On Jupiter, and Beyond (2012). Parent comment

Re:The Birthday Paradox – On Jupiter, and Beyond (2012) by pavel_lishin on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:04PM (#19298045)
> In fact, you need much less

How many iterations does that take on average? And why?

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Re:The Birthday Paradox – On Jupiter, and Beyond (2012) by resource0x on Sunday March 03, 2019 @08:57PM (#19298222)
see https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1409862/average-len... Which gives you 1000/7.48, not 1000/2
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