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I'm not sure your math there on the birthday paradox is right (you only check the time during a single 10 minute range every day, no matter what? and you wouldn
by gwern 2y ago
I'm not sure your math there on the birthday paradox is right (you only check the time during a single 10 minute range every day, no matter what? and you wouldn't look at it out of curiosity or for the pleasure of seeing a new quote?), but 15 days to the first collision doesn't seem like that long to me, for a piece of furniture that one would expect to be good for years to come and which costs $200+.
And note that the number will go up rapidly from whenever the first expected collision is: only 10 quotes per minute means you're going to see a lot of duplicates after a few hundred days.