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What are the odds that it gave me the same birth date as my actual birth date? Month and day, but not year. That's quite the coincidence, though I suspect it's
by iLoch 11y ago
What are the odds that it gave me the same birth date as my actual birth date? Month and day, but not year. That's quite the coincidence, though I suspect it's only something like 1:60.
- phire 11y agoThat would be 1:365.24 It would be 1 in 365, but leap years mess it up a bit.
- bentpins 11y agoLeap days are generated at the same frequency as regular days as far as I can tell. That simplifies things again to 1:366
- bentpins 11y ago1/365 I'd think. There are 365 days in a year and it has to match exactly one day. You might be interested in the Birthday Paradox though http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthd...
- ryan-c 11y agoBirthdays are not uniformly distributed. http://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html http://www.panix.com/~murphy/bday.html
- camkego 11y agoYes, but the probability that it found the same month and day as iLoch's, depend on the uniformity and independence of the month/day generator, not the distribution of actual birthdays.
- iLoch 11y agoYeah my guess was based on the birthday paradox. Though now I see that yes the software probably chose a random number between 1 and 365 so the birthday paradox wouldn't apply.