Don’t Play with the Odds: How the Birthday Paradox Hit Us While Coding Solid

Posted by thibautdavoult on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:32PM
from the blog.getsolid.io dept.

http://blog.getsolid.io/birthday-paradox-coding-solid/?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bdaypb

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Re:Don’t Play with the Odds: How the Birthday Paradox Hit Us... by ColinWright on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @01:07PM (#9540373)

I wrote about this some time ago[0] and submitted it here on HN[1], where there was an interesting discussion. That article includes a complete derivation[2] that's simply quoted in this submission.

[0] http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html?HN-201...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4753014

[2] http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheBirthdayParadox.html#toc_na...

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