From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:39:51 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, Ada Lovelace and JFO!
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On Thu, 10 Dec 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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%.

Not only am I familiar with that (I majored in Mathematics), I also know 
about the timezone problem i.e. when did a certain event occur?

And anyway, I was not talking about two people chosem at random, if you'd 
actually read what I wrote.

I try to use the local timezone where possible, but sometimes I have to 
guess; what do you do?

-- Dave