Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRET!!
- From: "Wilba" <wilba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:06:44 +0800
Bow Tie wrote:
Actually I did in probability and statistics. I believe it is
something like, if you have a sample of 30 people that it is a virtual
certainty that at least one pair will have the same birthday. It still
surprises me at times.
However, the probability that someone else has the same birthday as you (or
any other specific individual) is much smaller. For instance, I see the
birth date of everyone who walks through my office door, and that's hundreds
of new people a year. After a couple of years operating like that I've only
met one person with the same birthday as me (not the same year). Another for
instance, I hired a car from a one-man operator, and when he saw my birth
date he said, "I've been doing this for ten years, and you're the first
customer with the same birthday (different year) as me."
My claim to fame is the same birth date (day, month, and year) as Damon
Hill. :-)
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