The idea is for everyone to call out their birthday (one at a time, of course) and have anyone with the same birthday raise their hand. If one of the profs bet that we would get at least one match, how many would take the other side of that bet?
We had about xx people in the room. Professor Scalise had everybody call out their birthday, one at a time. The idea was to see if any two people in the room had the same birthday. We found a total of y pairs of people sharing birthdays.
How many people are required to make the probability of this reach 0.5 or 50%? Surprisingly, when you have 23 people, the probability is 0.507.
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We'll put the results here after we get hem.
Here's our original story:
Shiner Music Fest Features gourmet sushi. The swordfish liked the music
But the dinisaurs went extinct.
The front of the room turned it into: