From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog at lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:38:42 +1100 Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20201209233842.GA47484@eureka.lemis.com> [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: