Birthday paradox

Noun

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Definitions

1.NounThe counterintuitive observation that a random group of people needs to have only 23 members before there is a 50% chance of two of them having the same birthday.

Synonyms

birthday problem birthday attack berkson's paradox bertrand's paradox interesting number paradox goldbach's conjecture rule of succession bell number brun's theorem galileo's paradox petersburg paradox pigeonhole principle

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