[COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Thu Dec 10 09:38:42 AEST 2020


[Removing TUHS]

On Thursday, 10 December 2020 at  7:13:11 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?

I, for one.  This is the subject of the "birthday problem",
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem, though it's not clear
where there's a problem.  Take any 23 people and the chance of two of
them having the same birthday is 50%.

Greg
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