Bit hard to classify this one; separate posts since COFF was created? Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron), was born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer programmer and a highly independent woman, she saw the potential in Charles Babbage's new-fangled invention. J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer, he not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF series. Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday? -- Dave
Sorta relevant to both groups... Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (and daughter of Lord Byron), was born on this day in 1815; arguably the world's first computer programmer and a highly independent woman, she saw the potential in Charles Babbage's new-fangled invention. J.F.Ossanna was given unto us on this day in 1928; a prolific programmer, he not only had a hand in developing Unix but also gave us the ROFF series. Who'ld've thought that two computer greats would share the same birthday? -- Dave
[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>
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