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squirell nutkin 05-26-2010 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 658470)
Okay, if you stipulate all three must be male, that narrows it down, but if you allow two children per generation that puts is back up. And in older generations the average number was higher.

My high school mate shares his birthday with his daughter.

I reckon Pie knows this already, but ... how many people do you think you would need in a group to give a 50% or more chance that two people share a birthday?
I completely suck at math. Like, my math could suck a trigonometry textbook through 50 feet of garden hose. But I guess at the most extreme you'd need 366 people to assure that there would be one duplicate birthday. (excluding a Feb29th)

But, and this is a complete I suck at math guess, if you only needed a 50/50 chance, couldn't you divide 366 by 2 and get something like 183?

But again, while I rock at geometry which isn't really math, I had to take college algebra three times to get a D.

Did I mention I suck at math?

Shawnee123 05-26-2010 11:52 AM
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But again, while I rock at geometry which isn't really math, I had to take college algebra three times to get a D.
Twins again? I KILLED geometry. I loved proofs. Algae-bra is another animal. I didn't have to retake it but I had to spend some actual time on it.

Pie 05-26-2010 02:50 PM
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/c/6...7432b00819.png

http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/4/7...47266127cd.png

Shawnee123 05-26-2010 02:52 PM
That sound you hear is my brain exploding.

In other words...HUH WHAT?

;)

Pie 05-26-2010 02:54 PM
The Wikipedia explanation is pretty good. I'm not going to retype it here. :D

Shawnee123 05-26-2010 02:59 PM
I wouldn't understand it anyway! :)

HungLikeJesus 05-26-2010 10:01 PM
You would understand it easily. It's just never been explained to you properly.

Flint 05-26-2010 10:08 PM
The computer won't let her understand it.

Shawnee123 05-27-2010 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Flint (Post 658757)
The computer won't let her understand it.
Fine. I didn't even try to understand it. Busted. :blush:

Maybe I'll try to understand it later.

ZenGum 05-27-2010 08:23 PM
[gazes dreamily at Pie]

Clodfobble 05-28-2010 01:35 PM
Hey hey! I knew that one! I just came late to the thread. Can I have some dreamy gazing too? I get more of the "blank stare" variety most of the time...

Pie 05-28-2010 02:40 PM
Clod's brain can get a duplicate birthday match using only 11.5 people.

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/the_more_you_know2.jpg

classicman 06-02-2010 11:29 AM
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Police say a porn actor killed one colleague and injured two others with a prop weapon during a late night showdown at the Los Angeles studio where they all worked.

Police Detective Joel Price says the alleged attacker had been living at the adult entertainment business for several months but his colleagues told him he had to make other arrangements by Wednesday.

Price says Steven Hill attacked a colleague in the back of the building after work Tuesday with a machete-like weapon. Price says two others who heard the man's screams ran to help him and were also attacked before Hill fled the scene.

One of two people who tried to help died in surgery at a local hospital. The others are expected to survive.

ZenGum 06-03-2010 07:53 AM
If "prop weapon" had been a combat dildo, that would have been much better.

classicman 06-07-2010 12:56 PM
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A porn actor suspected of killing a colleague with a sword has died after jumping from a rocky hillside after a standoff with police.

Police Officer Bruce Borihanh says a "less than lethal munition" was used against Stephen Clancy Hill Saturday just before his jump.

SWAT officers spent part of the afternoon trying to talk Hill down from the hill as he clutched a sword. Borihanh says the 34-year-old actor fell some 40 feet.

Hill fled to the Chatsworth neighborhood hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday. He faced murder and attempted murder charges in Tuesday's attack at a DVD production center.


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