<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">Just because the birthday problem was not taught in
your school, it's no excuse for not being able to dig in, especially
with all of the online resources available. I'm sure everyone on this
email has had a problem they had to solve, and no clue where to begin,
but you start trying things or reading man pages or Google using the
error string or ...<br clear="none"><div><div id="ydp64b1cfccyiv4077837560"><div><div class="ydp64b1cfccyiv4077837560ydpdfbf7a4dyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">It took less than a minute with LibreOffice to do the computations. <br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Column 1 is just integer index.</div><div dir="ltr">Column 2 is one less than the number above.</div><div dir="ltr">Column 3 the probability from the previous line * the value in column 2 / 365</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div>
<table class="ydp64b1cfccyiv4077837560ydpfe438110yahoo-compose-table-card ydp64b1cfccyiv4077837560yahoo-compose-table-card" cellspacing="0" border="0"><colgroup width="107" span="3"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">1</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">365</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">1.000</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">2</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">364</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.997</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">3</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">363</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.992</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">4</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">362</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.984</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">5</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">361</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.973</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">6</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">360</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.960</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">7</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">359</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.944</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">8</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">358</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.926</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">9</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">357</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.905</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">10</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">356</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.883</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">11</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">355</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.859</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">12</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">354</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.833</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">13</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">353</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.806</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">14</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">352</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.777</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">15</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">351</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.747</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">16</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">350</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.716</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">17</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">349</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.685</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">18</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">348</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.653</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">19</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">347</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.621</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">20</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">346</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.589</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">21</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">345</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.556</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">22</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">344</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.524</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">23</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">343</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.493</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" height="21" align="right">24</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">342</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="right">0.462</td></tr></tbody></table>
</div><div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div>Personally, think the pond scum problem is a simple, but good example of non-linear growth.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">As for the idiot-in-chief, he keeps talking about how great American's are. Somehow the number of cases in the US is greater than those in China. And NYC is greater than all of CA. The facts should speak for themselves, except that many politicians find facts rather inconvenient. <br clear="none"></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Saturday, March 28, 2020, 3:30:16 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Quoting Texx (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:texxgadget@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">texxgadget@gmail.com</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">['Birthday Paradox':]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> For starters, most people (Including me) have NO IDEA how to START on<br clear="none">> this problem.<br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"></div>
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