Thread: birthday paradox

Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

SlyMaelstrom August 10

Ding ding ding ding ding!

That's my son's birthday.

Originally Posted by Mario F.

Oh. Well then, in that case there's been another two hits. On my late mother's and my sister birthdays.

Yeah, I suppose according to the strict version of the Birthday Paradox it really is restricted to people in the room (or in this case, on this thread), not people who those people know, etc etc...

January 10

Originally Posted by WiKiPedia

In probability theory, the birthday problem, or birthday paradox, pertains to the probability that in a set of randomly chosen people some pair of them will have the same birthday. In a group of 23 (or more) randomly chosen people, there is more than 50% probability that some pair of them will have the same birthday. For 57 or more people, the probability is more than 99%, tending toward 100% as the pool of people grows. The mathematics behind this problem leads to a well-known cryptographic attack called the birthday attack.

We do not have enough samples to really benefit from the paradox. Only persons visiting this board as members should be taken in our experiment.

mike_g october 14

Code:

1) Jackie Chan 		April 7
2) Prelude 		Nov 11
3) Neo1 		October 11
4) brewbuck 		February 7
5) ahluka 		June 7
6) ping 		December 15
7) anon 		October 25
8) indigo0086 		June 13
9) Mario F. 		August 23
10) BMJ 		May 29
11) maxorator 		March 25
12) SlyMaelstrom 	August 10
13) abh!shek 		January 10
14) P4R4N01D 		February 28
15) QuantumPete 	August 11
16) mike_g 		october 14
17) zacs7 		October 17
18) foxman 		October 15

I am unable to edit my original post now.

Oops I almost overlooked it.
Very Happy Birthday wishes for indigo0086!!!

Sept. 28