• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    366 would not guarantee it. That’s not how probability works. You cannot guarantee a shared birthday without selecting people. And not to mention, birthdays aren’t evenly distributed.

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        366 people wouldnt guarantee no shared birthdays though. There could still be one leap year baby in that bunch. But what are the odds in that?

        2.6 • 10^-158 , if anyone is curious.

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          That sad experiment where 366 people in a room all have the exact same birthday.

          Statisticly unlikely, but definitely possible.

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        I misunderstood the scenario. For some reason I was thinking that if you randomly selected people and had a duplicate birthday that’s what you didn’t want.