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The Birthday Paradox House

Felipe G. [PersonRank 1]

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
18 years ago2,601 views

Hi Everybody..

Don't know if everybody has already heard about the "Birthday Paradox".. It is a math paradox which demonstrates that the odds of birthday matches happening inside a room with some people are much bigger than what our intuition expect (for example, it says that in a room with 23 people that odds are over 50%).

I wanted to check it out, and thought that an web experiment about this "paradox" would be fun.. So I created a little experiment called "The Birthday Paradox House", where people "joins" a house" which has four rooms, and whenever a match happens their names are listed on the stats panel (ajax powered) and the room is emptied to restart the experiment.

So, ahm, I invite everybody to participate.. The more people who joins, the funnier (and more precise) the experiment will be!

Comments are welcome!

http://projects.felipc.com/birthday-paradox/

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