I thought I'd start this as we seem to have hijacked another thread.
Strange and counterintuitive ideas in Maths to be posted here.
My favourite is the fact that the it takes just 23 random people for the odds of two sharing the same birthday to be 0.5. And if you have just 40 people those odds rise to 0.9.
Strange and counterintuitive ideas in Maths to be posted here.
My favourite is the fact that the it takes just 23 random people for the odds of two sharing the same birthday to be 0.5. And if you have just 40 people those odds rise to 0.9.
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