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imported>Jitse Niesen
(The counterintuitive result that the chance that two people in a group of twenty-odd have the same birthday is about 50%.)
 
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The counterintuitive result that the chance that two people in a group of twenty-odd have the same birthday is about 50%.
 
In probability theory, the event that two persons in a group celebrate their birthday on the same day of the year; see [[birthday paradox]].

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Birthday coincidence [r]:

In probability theory, the event that two persons in a group celebrate their birthday on the same day of the year; see birthday paradox.