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by badcppdev 578 days ago
I was going to say that I was disappointed that the page didn't show the formula for the probability and show how it changes as you change the number of people in the room.

Then I checked the wiki page and understood that some of the maths is actually quite fiendish (for non mathematicians anyway) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

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