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(42S) Probability of Same Birthday Day
12-10-2018, 05:10 PM (This post was last modified: 12-10-2018 05:46 PM by Joe Horn.)
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RE: (42S) Probability of Same Birthday Day
(12-06-2018 03:59 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  
(12-06-2018 05:54 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  The probability of being born on February 29th is NOT zero.

Of course it's not zero (0.00068 > 0), no one would say it is so no need to highlight the "NOT", everybody knows that.

I was NOT highlighting it; I was following HP Prime syntax, which insists on NOT being capitalized. Big Grin

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EDIT: Come to think of it, here's a mini-challenge for ya: Write a program for the Same Birthday Probability problem, taking leap years into account.

EDIT 2: Never mind, the following delightful article fully explains the solution and its impact on the probabilities, which (as everybody said above) is minimal.
http://www.efgh.com/math/birthday.htm

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