Who Shares Your Birthday?

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In case you have a strange new desire to get an IOTBS shirt: http://store.dftba.com/collections/it...

See if you share a famous birthday (I got Tom Hiddleston): http://www.buzzfeed.com/kimberleydadd...

Explore the math behind Birthday Paradox #1: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/prob...

Explore Birthday Paradox #2: http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_de...

The “Facebook Birthday Problem” is a variant of the Coupon Collector’s Problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_...


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