From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:38:42 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201209233842.GA47484@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2012100710200.25789@aneurin.horsfall.org>
[Removing TUHS]
On Thursday, 10 December 2020 at 7:13:11 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday?
I, for one. This is the subject of the "birthday problem",
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem, though it's not clear
where there's a problem. Take any 23 people and the chance of two of
them having the same birthday is 50%.
Greg
--
Sent from my desktop computer.
Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key.
See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program
reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 163 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20201210/6fbe8d79/attachment.sig>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-09 20:13 dave
2020-12-09 23:38 ` grog [this message]
2020-12-12 8:39 ` dave
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-12-09 20:50 dave
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20201209233842.GA47484@eureka.lemis.com \
--to=coff@minnie.tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).