Birthday paradox, 8^8, etc.

[Dave Britten]

I ran a 10,000 trial Monte Carlo using a selection space of 8^8 (16,777,216), and the current population size given on the web site (66,320 tests), and got these results:

Mean number of collisions: 130.9364
Standard deviation: 11.4617

The site reports the current number of matches as 930. I'd say that's just a few standard deviations above the mean! I kind of figured the data would be far from a random distribution.