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It is similar to the problem of grocery checkout. If there are n checkout lines, the probability of being in the quickest line is 1/n, assuming that all checkou
by wallflower 7y ago
It is similar to the problem of grocery checkout. If there are n checkout lines, the probability of being in the quickest line is 1/n, assuming that all checkouts have lines.
It is probably 1/(how many possible birthdays in a given year range). To be conservative (90 years): 1/90*365 or 0.003%.
- ryanthedev 7y agoIs 90 years the representation of the average age of a person? What if it didn't matter that they were alive or dead? Meaning I have a hat with every name and birthday of every "human". Every time someone is born, their name is added to the hat. Essentially an infinite set of names would be added. What's the probability when N is infinite? Like a grocery store with an infinite amount of checkout lines.