Tuesday, 17 June 2014

The Birthday Paradox At The World Cup

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The birthday paradox concerns the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, some pair of them will have the same birthday. By the pigeonhole principle, the probability 50% with 23 people.

At the World Cup in Brazil there are 32 squads, each of 23 people... so do they demonstrate the truth of this mathematical axiom?

(thanks Michael)

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