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A variation of the birthday problem
Author(s) -
Borja Mario Cortina
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00977.x
Subject(s) - variation (astronomy) , computer science , physics , astrophysics
Alec Campbell of Bellevue College writes : I've read about the birthday problem, and how you only need 23 randomly chosen people for there to be a 50% chance that two people share a birthday. But how many people would you need for there to be a 50% chance that every possible birthday is represented by at least one person?